Talk:Chief constable
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[edit] Metropolitan Police
Recommend that the historical information on District Superintendent be moved to its own page.
- I don't think that's really necessary. It was exactly the same rank as Chief Constable, just a different name. Info will just end up being duplicated. -- Necrothesp 08:43, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] More universal?
In which other countries are police forces headed by Chief Constables? There are a few in Canada (primarily in British Columbia), but even there Chief of Police is the commoner term. I don't know of any elsewhere. A section about Canada can be added, but this is still principally a British term and the article should reflect that fact. -- Necrothesp 11:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
-- The Victoria Police, (Australia) uses the rank of Chief Constable and is the only one in Australia to do so. Yeppoon 08:32, 05 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Chief Constable
I'm not about to start an edit war, but tonight an editor has unilaterally moved this article to "Chief constable" which is nonsense, and certainly not required by WP:Job titles as claimed. "Chief Constable" is not a job title, it is a rank, and as such is capitalised. If it merely referred to "a constable of the 'chief' sort" then a case could be argued (perhaps), but such is not the case. "Chief Constable" is the rank title, as may be seen throughout the police service, and throughout the web, e.g.here or here to cite just the first two that pop up on my computer. In any case, WP:Job titles specifically states that where a title (or rank in this case) is of a compound nature, then "either all parts begin with a capital letter or none", so again, there was no need for this move. At the very least, therefore, it should have been discussed. Timothy Titus Talk To TT 20:32, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ah. My apologies. I should have been using WP:MilTerms which covers rank. It's very clear about lower-case for rank. Jojalozzo 23:38, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
