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UNITED STATES Many State Constitution s 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 jurisdiction 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. One other solution, an example of which is seen in the case of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department , is to provide for the sheriff to simultaneously serve as the chief of police, thus remaining as the chief law enforcement officer of the county. 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. CANADA In the province of Ontario, Canada, a Chief of Police must be a sworn Police Officer and therefore have completed training at the . |
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