Editing Inspector general (section)

==United Kingdom==

===Military===
In the [[United Kingdom|British]] tradition, an inspector general is usually a senior military officer responsible for the inspection of [[military unit]]s to ensure that they meet appropriate standards of training and efficiency. Unlike American inspectors general, they do not usually have an investigative or law enforcement function.

For many years the [[Royal Air Force]] maintained a post of [[Inspector General of the RAF|inspector general]].

===Police===
The [[commanding officer]]s of the [[Royal Irish Constabulary]] (and later of the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]] until replaced by [[chief constable]]) and many [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] [[police]] forces also bore the title of [[inspector general of police]] and it is still used in [[India]] and some other former British territories.

The inspector general is also the name given to the [[chief executive officer]] of the [[Insolvency Service]].

Inspector and variants of it are rank titles of officers in the police of [[British police|Britain]] and most Commonwealth countries.