Police Rank Progression titles...

[GoblynByte]

What follows is a rather superficial list of police ranks (and superficial is fine for my purposes) taken from Wikipedia. What would you suggest for a per rank progression of these titles? Do you think it would be as simple a 1 to 1 progression matched to this list? Or do you think some of these would group into a single level of the Rank advantage?

Thanks in advance!

Note: I'm not really concerned with the accuracy of this list with real-world police agencies. What's presented is more or less adequate.

The United States of America police rank model is generally quasi-military in structure. Although the large and varied number of federal, state, and local police departments and sheriff's office have different ranks, a general model, from highest to lowest rank, would be:

• Sheriff (the highest ranking law enforcement official within a county)
• Chief of Police, Police Commissioner, Superintendent, Constable (highest ranking law enforcement official within a city/municipality)
• Chief of Police, Deputy Commissioner, First Deputy Superintendent, Undersheriff
• Deputy Chief, Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Superintendent, Assistant Sheriff
• Assistant Chief, Assistant Superintendent, Associate Sheriff
• Commander, Deputy Assistant Superintendent, Chief Deputy Sheriff
• Colonel
• Lieutenant Colonel
• Major
• Captain
• Lieutenant
• Sergeant Major
• Master Sergeant, First Sergeant
• Sergeant First Class, Sergeant II
• Sergeant, Sergeant I
• Master Trooper, Master Trooper
• Detective, Investigator, Inspector (this is generally only an actual rank in larger departments, and often include different levels for "career detectives")
• Corporal Grade 1, Senior Trooper
• Police Corporal, Deputy First Class, Trooper First Class, Master Patrol Officer
• Police Officer, Deputy Sheriff, Trooper, Patrol Officer