Sheriff of the Arab Union

The Sheriff of the Union of Arab Republics (Arabic: شريف اتحاد الجمهوريات العربية sharīf ittiḥād al-jumhūriyāt al-arabīyah) is the highest-ranking member and executive leader of the Arab Union Sheriff Service, the primary and largest federal law enforcement agency of the Arab Union, formally the Union of Arab Republics (UAR). The Sheriff of the Arab Union is appointed by the President of the Arab Union on advice of the Attorney General, to the latter of whom the Sheriff is directly answerable. The Sheriff is supported by an Undersheriff (الشريف الثاني ash-sharīf ath-thānī) whom he appoints, to whom many of the Sheriff's routine responsibilities are delegated, allowing more time for the Sheriff to focus on service improvements and attend public and political events. Officers subordinate to the Sheriff and Undersheriff are known as sheriff's deputies, or deputies for short (نواب nawāb; sg. نائب nā’ib). The Arabic word for "officer" (ضابط ḍābiṭ) is only used to refer to officers of one of the republics' national police services or of the Nasser City Police Service, with officers of the Sheriff Service always referred to as deputies (except, as mentioned above, the agency's two highest-ranking officials, namely the Sheriff and Undersheriff).