Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a police commissioner can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a police commissioner already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Police commissioners supervise an entire police department by monitoring and regulating the administrative and operational activities of a police department, as well as developing policies and procedural methods. They are responsible for the cooperation between the various divisions in the department, and overseeing the employees' performance.

Also known as commissaire, chief constable, police & crime commissioner, chief police constable, police and crime commissioner, police chief constable, police chief, sheriff, chief police officer, police woman.

Managers 32 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: police inspector, 63%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
police inspector 63% covered police detective 62% covered correctional services manager 58% covered court administrator 38% covered intelligence officer 37% covered police commissioner You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from police commissioner, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a police commissioner already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A police commissioner needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • form operational strategies for law enforcement assisting and caring
  • manage security clearance management skills
  • develop investigation strategy information skills
  • investigation research methods services
  • criminology social sciences, journalism and information
  • ensure information security assisting and caring
  • ensure law application assisting and caring
  • ensure compliance with policies management skills
  • law enforcement services
  • evaluate employees management skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a police commissioner does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Police commissioner is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a police commissioner’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.