Police chief - Salary and Career
Police Delegates

Police chief - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They exclusively preside over the activities of the judicial police, direct and coordinate the activities of repression of criminal offenses to restore order and individual and collective security. They manage activities in the interest of public safety. They issue public documents and manage human and material resources.

How much does an Police chief earn

A Police chief earns between $3.190 and $4.681 per month, with an average monthly salary of $3.475 and a median salary of $3.569 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 4 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Police chief

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 3.475 41.696 869 16
1º Quartile 3.190 38.286 798 15
Median Salary 3.569 42.831 892 17
3º Quartile 3.570 42.835 892 17
Higher Salary 4.681 56.166 1.170 22


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • professionals in the legal sciences
      • lawyers for the judiciary and public security
        • police delegates

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Main workplaces

Police Delegates they work in public administration, in police stations and related bodies, at the state and district levels. They work as a team, under occasional supervision, indoors, outdoors and in vehicles and during daytime or irregular hours. They can be exposed to shootings, insalubrity and diseases. In some activities, they remain in uncomfortable positions for long periods and may work under pressure, leading to a stressful situation.


What does it take to work in the field of Police Delegates

The exercise of this occupation requires training in Law and public tender, followed by specialization courses.


Functions and activities of Police chief

Police Delegates must:

  • directing the activities of repression of criminal offenses;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • manage human resources and materials;
  • manage activities of public security interest;
  • preside with exclusivity over the judicial police activities;
  • manage activities of public safety interest;
  • coordinating actions to prevent criminal offenses;
  • preside with exclusivity over the judiciary police activities;
  • dispatch public documents;
  • preside exclusively over the judiciary police activities;
  • issuing public documents;
  • coordinate actions to prevent criminal offenses;
  • directing repression activities for criminal offenses;
  • preside with exclusivity over judicial police activities;
  • directing the activities of repression of criminal offenses;
  • directing activities to repress criminal offenses;
  • preside with exclusivity over the activities of the judiciary police;
  • manage human and material resources;
  • direct the activities of repression of criminal offenses;

  • Activities

    • demonstrate persistence;
    • decide on the elaboration of detailed terms;
    • distribute tasks;
    • issuing driver's licenses;
    • seize objects related to the criminal offense;
    • act with emotional balance;
    • master the portuguese language;
    • enable documental dispatchers;
    • elaborate criminal statistics;
    • elaborate privately detailed terms;
    • inspect the operation of private security companies;
    • act with common sense;
    • request information, examinations and expertise from various bodies;
    • fulfill rogatory and rogatory letters;
    • arrest adolescents for participating in an infraction;
    • coordinate technical service of social and psychological support to the civil police;
    • propose disciplinary punishment;
    • arbitrate bail;
    • deciding on the arrest in flagrante delicto;
    • ensure the safety of dignitaries;
    • extradite foreigners;
    • supervise auctions of seized vehicles;
    • control the activities of private security companies;
    • control the transport and sale of explosives, weapons and ammunition;
    • repatriate foreigners;
    • develop a preventive action plan;
    • prosecute foreigners in an irregular situation;
    • expel foreigners;
    • issuing a release permit;
    • coordinate the actions of the civil guard in the cases provided for by law;
    • issuing certificates;
    • request provisional arrests to the judiciary;
    • deliver courses and lectures to the community;
    • act promptly;
    • supervise the use of material resources;
    • decide on the opening of a police investigation;
    • issuing licensing and registration documents for motor vehicles;
    • dispatch other documents related to public security;
    • custody inmates;
    • demonstrate synthesis ability;
    • control the armament and registration of guards of private security companies;
    • determine the referral of the investigation to the judiciary;
    • dispatch passports;
    • formally listening to people in the interest of the investigation;
    • coordinate witness protection plans;
    • stay courageous;
    • control the transit of foreigners;
    • demonstrate professional vocation;
    • deport foreigners;
    • demonstrate improvisational skills;
    • demonstrate leadership;
    • define human resources framework;
    • dispatch the release of dead bodies in the cases provided for by law;
    • collect information for police purposes;
    • demonstrate psychological resilience;
    • research topics of research interest;
    • issuing identity cards for foreigners;
    • determine police investigations;
    • issuing precatory letters;
    • demonstrate general knowledge;
    • guide the community;
    • coordinate the destruction of seized illicit material;
    • refer the occurrence of an infraction to the childhood and youth court ;
    • stay in good physical shape;
    • fulfill judicial requests;
    • materialize the results of investigations;
    • issue legal opinions;
    • repress clandestine activities of private security;
    • supervise the transport and sale of explosives, weapons and ammunition;
    • inspect the work of documental dispatchers;
    • maintain physical stamina;
    • inspect workshops and dismantle vehicles;
    • authorize the operation of private security companies;
    • determine the submission of the detailed term;
    • demonstrate insight;
    • demonstrate persuasion;
    • preside over administrative processes;
    • demonstrate sense of spatial orientation;
    • implement actions: monitoring of suspects, patrolling, barriers and searches ;
    • dispatch gun records and possessions;
    • search for missing persons;
    • preside over administrative-disciplinary procedures;
    • managing crises (riots, kidnappings);
    • deliver a teenager to the legal guardian;
    • issuing background certificates;
    • download lower hierarchy rules;
    • coordinate the process of recruiting and training police officers;
    • forwarding children to the guardianship council;
    • install police investigation;
    • master writing techniques;
    • dispatch id cards;
    • represent security agencies with other entities;
    • register infractions committed by children and adolescents;
    • perform ordinary and extraordinary corrections;
    • handle weapons and equipment with dexterity;
    • demonstrate visual acuity;
    • accredit documentary dispatchers;
    • act with discipline;
    • act with urbanity;
    • preside over public security tenders;
    • fulfilling court orders;
    • determine the recording of the occurrence;
    • supervise production, transport and commercialization of controlled chemical products;
    • conduct a warning hearing;
    • indicate persons as perpetrators of criminal offences;
    • apply disciplinary punishments;
    • dispatch ordinances and work orders;
    • act creatively;
    • demonstrate analytical skills;
    • make decisions quickly;
    • to prepare the final investigation report;
    • processing information for police purposes;
    • making arrests;
    • demonstrate auditory acuity;
    • protect witnesses and victims;
    • reason logically;
    • demonstrate ability to know and interpret the law;
    • send adolescents to the special childhood court;
    • dispatch notifications;
    • supervise the functional performance of subordinates;
    • providing assistance to police officers from other countries and other units of the federation;
    • becoming aware of the criminal offense;


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