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Assistant Commissioner


Assistant commissioner is a rank used in many police forces around the globe. It is also a rank used in revenue administrations (Land,Income Tax Customs, Inland etc.) in many countries.

In all Australian police forces, assistant commissioner is the rank below deputy commissioner but senior to the rank of commander (South Australia Police, Victoria Police), senior to the rank of superintendent (Western Australia Police and NSW Police Force) and senior to the rank of chief superintendent (Queensland Police Service). In all services, the insignia consists of crossed and wreathed tipstaves; as a rank, it is roughly equivalent to that of a brigadier or major-general in the army.

The rank of assistant commissioner is used by one police agency:

Hong Kong Police Force have two ranks for assistant commissioner:

In India, senior officers of the rank of assistant superintendent/assistant commissioner of police or above may belong to the national Indian Police Service or state police services, whereas Indian inspectors and constables belong to the individual provincial police forces.The rank of Assistant Commissioner is also used in Indian Income Tax, Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax Administration, as an officer of Indian Revenu

In Pakistan, assistant commissioner is a rank of the Revenue Administration, which is of two sub-types: Land Revenue, also known as District Management Group, and Inland Revenue. The assistant commissioner of Land Revenue is an official appointed/posted at the sub-district level responsible for managing land records, revenue receipts related to land transfer, water cess and crop cess etc. He is also given magisterial powers in the capacity of sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) to settle disputes . The Central Superior Services (denoted as CSS; or Bureaucracy) is an elite permanent bureaucratic authority, and the civil service that is responsible for running the civilian bureaucratic operations and government secretariats and directorates of the Cabinet secretariat.[1] The civil service defined itself as "key wheels on which the entire engine of the state has to move."[1] Derived from the colonial legacy of the former British Empire- Assistant commissioner selection is made after passing the CSS exam and including name in DMG group.


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