| askari | assistant chief constable |
| bomb squad | Bow Street Runner/Officer |
| cadet | captain |
| carabiniere/carabinieri | chief (of police) |
| chief constable | chief inspector |
| chief superintendent | CID (Criminal Investigation Department) |
| commander | commissaire |
| commissioner | community police officer |
| constable | constabulary |
| crime squad | deputy chief constable |
| desk sergeant | detective chief inspector |
| detective chief superintendent | detective constable |
| detective inspector | detective sergeant |
| detective superintendent | drug/drugs squad |
| faujdar/faujidar | flying squad |
| fraud squad | Garda/Gardai |
| gendarme | gendarmerie |
| Gestapo | GPU |
| havildar | Homicide |
| inspector | investigating officer |
| Keystone Kops | KGB |
| LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) | lieutenant |
| marshal | master-at-arms |
| Met | military police (MP) |
| military policeman/policewoman (MP) | Mountie |
| murder squad | NKVD |
| NYPD (New York Police Department) | pointsman |
| police constable | police department |
| port police | provost |
| provost guard | provost marshal |
| redcap | Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
| roundsman | Scotland Yard |
| secret police | Securitate |
| security police | sepoy |
| sergeant | snatch squad |
| SOCO (scene-ofcrime officer) | special |
| special constable | SS |
| Stasi | station sergeant |
| strike force | super |
| superintendent | Sûreté |
| SWAT team | Sweeney |
| Texas Ranger | transport police |
| trooper | vice squad |
| Vopo | woman police constable |