Editing Inspector (section)

=== Municipal police ===
{{See also|Police ranks of the United States}}

An inspector in a US municipal police department is more likely to be a senior executive officer, analogous to a [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] police [[Superintendent (police)|superintendent]] or [[chief superintendent]]. It may also be a title held by a supervisor of detectives.

In the [[New York City Police Department]], a deputy inspector is one grade above captain, wearing the insignia of a military major, and an inspector is another grade higher, wearing the insignia of a military colonel. In the [[Philadelphia Police Department]], a staff inspector is a grade above captain and an inspector is another grade higher, with the insignia of a lieutenant colonel. An inspector is also two grades above a captain in the [[Baltimore Police Department]], [[Nassau County Police Department]] and [[Suffolk County Police Department]].

Inspector is more rarely used as a rank that is one grade above [[Police captain|captain]], such as in the [[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia]]. This is equivalent to a major or [[Commander#American police rank|commander]] in other departments. The [[Los Angeles Police Department]] formerly had a rank of inspector for this purpose. It was changed to commander in 1974.

In the police departments of [[Hayward, California|Hayward]], California, [[Oklahoma City]] and formerly in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], California, inspector was the rank held by a senior detective.

In the [[San Francisco Police Department]], inspector is the normal title for a detective. Unlike detectives in most other departments, inspectors in San Francisco always have supervisory duties. This is one of the few modern remaining cases of inspector being used as a title for detectives. A few other police or sheriff's departments, such as the [[Portsmouth, Rhode Island]] police department, also use the title in that capacity.

Inspector is sometimes used as the title for internal affairs investigators within a police or sheriff's department, including in Florida's [[Alachua County Sheriff's Office]].