Chief Of Police

The Constitution s of all U.S. State s (except Connecticut , which has no sheriffs, and Hawaii , which has a State Sheriff) require every county to have a sheriff; some make no provision for this position to be eliminated even in the case of the formation of a Consolidated City-county or " Metropolitan Government ". In this case, a decision must be made about how to divide the powers between the county sheriff and the city chief of police. The usual compromise is one which allows the chief of police to exercise law enforcement jursidiction and to give the sheriff and his or her deputies authority over Jail s and the serving of Civil Papers ; an alternative and lesser-used solution is to make the office of sheriff a purely ceremonial one.

In the province of Ontario, Canada, a Chief of Police must be a sworn Police Officer and therefore have completed training at the Ontario Police College or have served past a probationary period with another recognized police force. This requirement is legislated in the Police Services Act of Ontario . The legislation states in Section 2 that a Chief of Police is a Police Officer. Section 44.2 of the PSA defines the training requirements. There was a case of the Guelph, Ontario Police Department where a human resources manager was promoted to the position of Deputy Chief, but was required to complete training at the OPC.

A police chief may in a small town be the only paid employee of the police department and have a staff consisting only of volunteers, when available; conversely the police chief of a major city may have thousands (or in the case of very large cities such as New York City and Los Angeles , tens of thousands) of sworn officers and thousands more civilian employees under his or her command. So it is very obvious that the qualifications and skills required to be a police chief vary widely. Another important consideration is how overtly a police department is influenced by Politics , which varies greatly from one jurisdiction to another. Increasingly, all U.S. law enforcement officers, including small-town police chiefs and their charges, are being required to meet at least minimum levels of professional training to an extent that was unknown even a few decades ago.

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