Editing Commander (section)

===American police rank===
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Some large police departments and sheriff's offices in the US have a commander rank. Most commonly, this is the next rank above captain. Examples of this include the [[Chicago Police Department]], [[Los Angeles Police Department]], [[San Francisco Police Department]], [[Portland Police Bureau]] and [[Rochester Police Department]]. In others, such as the [[Phoenix Police Department]] and [[Saint Paul Police Department]], a commander rank is the next rank above lieutenant, and is equivalent to captain. In the Northport, Florida's police department, however, commanders are below captains.

A commander in the LAPD is equivalent to an [[Inspector#United States|inspector]] in other large US departments (such as the [[NYPD]]); the LAPD rank was originally called inspector as well, but was changed in 1974 to commander. The [[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia]] also uses the rank of commander, which is a grade above inspector and two grades above captain.  In the [[Montgomery County Police Department|Montgomery County, MD police department]] a commander is a [[police captain|captain]] assigned to command a police district. The [[Jacksonville Sheriff's Office]] replaced the Assistant Chief rank with commander.<ref>{{cite web |title=JSO Organizational Chart |url=https://www.jaxsheriff.org/Your-Sheriff-s-Office/docs/JSO-Organizational-Chart.aspx |website=Jaxsheriff.org |publisher=Jacksonville Sheriff Office |access-date=22 January 2025}}</ref>

The insignia worn is commonly every insignia between [[Major (United States)|major]] and major general, depending on the police or sheriff's department. Albuquerque Police Department commanders are captain equivalents, however, with the brass version of the captain's insignia. In some other police or sheriff's departments where the captains have brass insignias instead of silver, such as Florida's Lee County Sheriff's Department, commanders are above captains, and below majors, with the insignia being brass captain's bars with wreathes around. Northport's police commanders have the insignia of second lieutenants. Commander is also used as a title in certain circumstances, such as the commander of a squad of detectives, who would usually be of the rank of lieutenant, and in some police or sheriff's departments where commanders are ranks, officers or deputies of separate ranks are also referred to as commander by title.