Police commissioner
They develop and implement policies, manage budgets, and coordinate with other law enforcement agencies and community groups.
Additionally, the commissioner handles high-profile cases, addresses public concerns, and represents the department in various forums.
However titles such as commissaire in French, commissario in Italian and comisario in Spanish can mean either commissioner or commissary in English, depending on the context.
The state of Victoria at one time (during the 19th-century Gold Rush) appointed commissioners for both the metropolitan area and the goldfields.
[11] The insignia of rank worn by a commissioner in the Australian Federal Police and the New South Wales Police Force is a crown over a star and crossed and wreathed tipstaves, similar to the insignia of a military full general.
[18] The commissioners appoint and oversee a chief of police, to whom is delegated the day-to-day management of the force.
The second-highest career bracket in German law enforcement leads to the rank of police commissioner or Kommissar.
Training encompasses three years in a police academy (graduating as Diplom-Verwaltungswirt or bachelor of public administration).
Roughly equivalent to a British commissioner would be (Landes-) Polizeipräsident or Inspekteur der Polizei, titles that differ between police forces in Germany.
For example, it is held by a Director General of Police (DGP) rank officer in Delhi and Kolkata; and by an Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) rank officer in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj (Allahabad),Gautam Budh Nagar, and Surat; by Inspector General of Police (IGP) officer in Cyberabad Metropolitan Police, Gurgaon, Pune, Nashik, Coimbatore, Madurai, Thane, Howrah, Siliguri, Trivandrum, and Cochin; and by Deputy Inspector General of Police officer in Bidhannagar, Kozhikode and in many small cities.
The rank holders assumed the responsibility of being a chief of the prefectural police force.
The commissioner is appointed for a five-year term by the governor-general, and reports to the minister of police.
[40] Early commissioners came from the United Kingdom with military or law-enforcement experience, such as Walter Dinnie, who had served as inspector at Scotland Yard.
[42] In Poland, a commissioner (komisarz) is a relatively low rank, directly above podkomisarz and below nadkomisarz, comparable to a lieutenant of the armed forces.
The chief of each of the Lisbon and Oporto police forces had the title of commissioner general (comissário-geral).
They are not warranted police officers, although they appoint and hold to account their chief constable.
The first police and crime commissioners were elected in November 2012, with the lowest electorate turnout ever in England and Wales.
