NOC 2021 · 40040 · TEER 0
Commissioned police officers and related occupations in public protection services
Unit group 40040 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Commissioned police officers plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate police force administration and police activities such as maintaining law and order and detecting and preventing crime. They are employed by municipal, provincial and federal governments. This unit group includes officers from the rank of staff sergeant to police commissioner. Commissioned officers in the railway police, deputy chief coroners, and deputy chief medical examiners are also included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- anti-gambling section inspector - police
- assistant chief inspector - police
- assistant deputy police chief
- assistant police commissioner
- chief detective - police
- chief inspector - police
- chief of police
- chief superintendent
- commanding officer - police
- deputy chief coroner
- deputy chief medical examiner
- deputy chief of police
- deputy police chief
- detective inspector - police
- district police chief
- drug squad inspector - police
- firearms section inspector - police
- harbour police chief
- headquarters chief inspector - police
- headquarters police inspector
- investigative inspector - police
- military police officer - commissioned
- police captain
- police chief
- police chief - regional operations
- police force inspector
- police inspector
- police lieutenant
- police staff inspector
- police superintendent
- precious metals theft inspector - police
- railway police chief
- railway police supervisor
- regional coroner
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) commissioner
- staff superintendent - police
- superintendent - police
- traffic inspector - police
- traffic superintendent - police
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.