Police ranks of the Arab Union

The following is the standard civilian system of ranking used by the regular law enforcement in the Arab Union; namely the National Police Service as well as the Judicial Police Service. The only main law enforcement agency to utilise an alternative ranking system is the Military Police Directorate, which is not considered a civilian organisation, and whose personnel instead use the same standard ranking system of the armed forces.

Civilian police ranks
Below is the nine-tier civilian ranking system employed by all constables of the National or Judicial Police:


 * Director general – المدير العام
 * director – مدير
 * chief superintendent – رئيس المساعدين
 * superintendent – مساعد
 * chief inspector – رئيس المفتشين
 * inspector – مفتش
 * staff sergeant – رقيب أول
 * sergeant – رقيب
 * constable – شرطي

Field officers ie. those responsible for such roles as first response, patrol, issuing and acting on arrest warrants, etc., for the most part consist of constables, their immediate sergeants (each of whom may oversee between 3 and 10 constables), and the staff sergeant(s) overseeing between 1 and 3 sergeants. Such field officer hierarchy is present in first-response anti-terrorism units, beat patrol units (often plainclothes), traffic authority, community cooperation & schools authority, and more.

Higher ranking personnel, namely inspector through chief inspector to superintendent, operate mostly as (semi-) plainclothes law enforcement officials and are entrusted with more protracted and abstract rolls, most regarding investigation of serious crimes, including homicides or attempts, sex crimes, as well as investigation of alleged internal professional misconduct and/or corruption, this latter responsibility falling under the Unit AC01 known domestically as Wahdat Nazaha (#10).