Talk:List of police ranks

message: France, like many country (including Spain, a number of former colonies, and until recently Belgium), possess two main police force, a civil one, the Police Nationale, focused on big aglomeration, and a military one, the Gendarmerie. They each have geographic competency over their own non overlapping areas of the french territory, wiht the first one having competency over roughly half the population and 5% of the territory (but including all the big cities), while the other one has competency on, well, what's left. 
However, only the Police Nationale is mentionned in the Wikipedia page. I wonder if the reason for such an omission might be because, as a part of the French Military, the Gendarmerie uses the same ranks as the other componants of the French Military, while Police Nationale ranks are both more specific and a bit more messy (as the realtion between the Officer corp and the Commissaire corp is not a strict hierarchic one).
Though, in an absence of any voices raised against it, I'm going to do what was done for the Spain section and add the Gendarmerie ranks to the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.92.249.207 (talk) 22:37, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  French Gendarmerie 

message: I'm in no way expert on the subject, but I would think, as probably other common readers, that "rank" is not "ranking", even in the context of police language; more precisely that while "ranking" means "system of grading" (as a noun) or "assigning a grade" (as a verb), the term "rank" in itself is just a synonym of grade. Any clarification would be welcome. If my perception is right, then this article defines "ranking", not "rank" and we should rename it (at least). --Gennaro Prota 19:16, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reasons for tagging the article as "confusing" 

message: I think some discussion should be on general ranks of policemen - officer, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, etc. --AW 21:40, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  General ranks 

message: I am no expert in this area but it would appear that the rank insignia displayed for Comissioner and Deputy Comissioner in the UK police section are the wrong way round.  The lower rank shows two pips while the higher rank shows only one.  This goes against the logical progression of "more pips/stars/crowns/wreaths" etc signifying a higher rank....?  Can anyone confirm/correct? ColourSarge 11:20, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK Police Rank Insignia 

message: The anonymous user 96.229.234.134 re-added the following after I removed it:
:Law Enforcement Scientist/Law Enforcement Rate Equation: Someone with significant scientific ideas on how to make improvements to the law enforcement system. Physics equation that describes the law enforcement system as a double sided justice system consisting of both a heroic justice system and a criminal justice system for when people do things both right and wrong. Insignia: look for the scientific equation and look for more intelligent police officers. A law enforcement scientist is concerned with the law enforcement system as a whole including more than one community whereas a police chief is concerned with more locally the immediate police department and immediate community.
The whole section is nonsensical and has nothing to do with police ranks in the US. Could the contributor please state a rationale why this section should be kept? Otherwise I will remove it again. Thank you. – Adrian Lozano (talk) 22:40, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Law Enforcement Scientist 

message: What US police departments use these ranks?75.164.208.19 (talk) 02:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colonel & Major 

message: a) I recommend to delete the whole section and give just basic information instead. As Germany has 17 different Police agencies (1 federal and 16 of each state), the comparison of ranks or funcions is not plausible. 
b) German "Kommissar" was translated as "commissioner", but is not equal to the English term.
c) Facing military cooperation in international missions, following equivalents were used or are being used:
Polizei(ober-,haupt-)meister - Sergeant;
(Polizei)Kommissar - Lieutenant;
(Polizei)Oberkommissar - (First) Lieutenant;
(Polizei)Hauptkommissar - (Police) Captain;
Erster (Polizei)Hauptkommissar - (Senior)Captain;
Polizeirat - (Police) Major;
Polizeioberrat - (Police) LtCol;
Polizeidirektor - (Police) Colonel;
Lt. Polizeidirektor - (Police) Colonel
d) List of German Police Ranks (in general) from lowest to highest
(Police officers of investigations department, similar to detectives, are named "Kriminal-" instead of "Polizei-" in their respective ranks; only trained police officers can join ID via further training - no candidate rank in ID)
Polizeimeisteranwärter (=candidate rank);
Polizeimeister;
Polizeiobermeister;
Polizeihauptmeister;
Polizeihauptmeister (mit Zulage)
Polizeikommissaranwärter (=candidate rank);
Polizeikommissar;
Polizeioberkommissar;
Polizeihauptkommissar;
Erster Polizeihauptkommissar
Polizeiratanwärter(=candidate rank);
Polizeirat;
Polizeioberrat;
Polizeidirektor;
Leitender Polizeidirektor;
Highest ranking staff (equivalent to Generals)
Polizeivizepräsident; 
(Inspekteur);
Polizeipräsident;  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.113.106.151 (talk) 01:16, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  German Ranks 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 2 external links on Police rank. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100611015615/http://www.edmontonpolice.ca/~/media/EPS%20External/Files/Reports/2008AnnualReport.ashx to http://www.edmontonpolice.ca//~/media/EPS%20External/Files/Reports/2008AnnualReport.ashx
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140130094615/http://www.consejopolicia.gob.ve/ to http://www.consejopolicia.gob.ve/
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 03:02, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I removed the following [Roblox.com/MrMan368/Group/:8765577588.RBLX.com MrMan368] from Cyprus. Can someone please help me restore the Greek name for the Chief of Police. Creuzbourg (talk) 17:02, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  MrMan368 

message: Someone did the dumbest choice of literally deleting around 4000 characters on Brazil. WHY? "Source" I'm literally Brazilian, you can find those "sources" in any Brazilian site that is officially owned by the government and Police forces. But if you're lazy to try and read Portuguese then don't ruin an entire section.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:3D5C:27:C401:5D50:5B44:9B72:9A35 (talk) 19:17, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: If you are too lazy to include the sources, don't be surprised if your additions get nixed. Primergrey (talk) 19:39, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  See the above discussion about standardization. You could move your text to a new article: Law enforcement in Brazil. Creuzbourg (talk) 20:03, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

text:  if you can provide website links here for the text that was removed, I'll be able to restore relevant text to this article and add the other text into the Law enforcement in Brazil article. - Cdjp1 (talk) 09:05, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Done I added sources.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:3D5C:27:C401:1028:CA3D:6E4A:4536 (talk) 17:42, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Linking to Wikipedia articles is not WP:RELIABLE. We need to be able to WP:VERIFY the sources. Stop adding the content with out RELIABLE sources. Additionally, this wall of text is unneeded for this page. This page only focuses on the ranks. Other information should be placed on the respective pages rather than here.Skjoldbro (talk) 08:31, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brazil. 

message: I am wondering why you keep on insisting on having this wall of text for Brazil. The purpose of this page is to provide the reader with (at best) a short description of the ranks and its system, and the ranks themselves. That's it. If we include every single piece of information on this page, it would be impressible to navigate, with 200 countries all having 500–1000 words connected to them. This is why you don't see any other entry on this list having so much text. If you feel that this information is important, move it to pages such as Law enforcement in Brazil where it is more relevant. Skjoldbro (talk) 07:04, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Because all that is important to understand the ranks of Brazil Police.— Preceding unsigned comment added by BrazilianNormalGuy (talk • contribs) 20:44, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:   is important to understanding that the Brazilian Police has a Major? Again, you are not understanding the purpose of this page. There should only bee images and some supporting/clarifying text if necessary. All the Brazil text is not this. That text is WP:UNDUE, WP:UNSOURCED and goes against the currently established WP:Consensus. As such, I am going to remove it again. Like I said before, if you feel like this is important, move to a more relevant page or get Consensus on this talk page before re-adding it. Skjoldbro (talk) 07:14, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

text: This is in fact important as each Police uses its own ranks and maximum rank limit which some based on each other, for instance, The PM uses the same as the Army, and the PF the same as PC, and if you want to be useful add Civil Police ranks as well, such as Delegado, Escrivão, Investigador, etc...— Preceding unsigned comment added by BrazilianNormalGuy (talk • contribs) 17:21, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why must descriptions of every function be given then ? Cause you add lots of info about what the different forces do, but say literally nothing about the ranks of the police forces you talk about. So why have all this information when it does not do what you claim it is needed for? --Cdjp1 (talk) 13:02, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

text: Re-read the linked Wikipedia policies or comments here and on your talk. I believe that all of these provide more than accurate reasons as to why your information is removed and how the process works on Wikipedia. Skjoldbro (talk) 13:20, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

text: as has been stated multiple times previously, the information is more relevant on a separate article on policing in brazil, than on an article discussing police ranks. ----Cdjp1 (talk) 16:17, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brazil and its relevance 

message: For the correct, official translation of the Austrian police ranks see the following link: https://www.gemeinsamsicher.at/downloads/Polizeiglossar_3.0.pdf, page 115 --Der Polizist (talk) 13:55, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct Austrian police ranks