List_of_civil_defense_ranks
Civil defense agencies and organizations are structured differently around the world. Civil Defense is dedicated to protecting civilians from military attacks, as well as to providing rescue services after natural and human-made disasters.
New South Wales State Emergency Service
Queensland State Emergency Service
*Prior to the establishment of the Queensland Fire & Emergency Service in 2013, the State Emergency Service used to have the ranks of Deputy Chief Officer and Chief Officer.
Victoria State Emergency Service
- Volunteers
Section Leader | Deputy Controller | Unit Controller |
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- Staff
Operations Officer | Operations Manager | Assistant Chief Officer | Deputy Chief Officer | Chief Officer |
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Superior officers | Officers | ||||
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Colonel Kolonel |
Lieutenant-colonel Luitenant-Kolonel |
Major Majoor |
Capitaine-commandant Kapitein-Commandant |
Capitaine Kapitein |
Lieutenant Luitenant |
NCOs | Enlisted | ||||
Adjudant Adjudant |
Sergent Sergeant |
Caporal Korporaal |
Sapeur Sappeur | ||
Specialists | |||||
Spécialiste de niveau 4 Vrijwilliger-Specialist 4 |
Spécialiste de niveau 3 Vrijwilliger-Specialist 3 |
Spécialiste de niveau 2 Vrijwilliger-Specialist 2 |
Spécialiste de niveau 1 Vrijwilliger-Specialist 1 | ||
Source:[1] |
Danish Emergency Management Agency[2]
- Officers
Directors | Officers | |||||||
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Direktør | Vicedirektør | Brigadechef | Kolonnechef | Sektionschef | Sektionsleder | Korpsmester | Mester | Mester af reserven (reserves) |
- NCO
- Civil Defence Corps 1972 [3]
- Volunteers
- Staff
The German civil defense was activated in 1939 as the Sicherheits und Hilfsdienst, it was renamed Luftschutzpolizei in April 1942, when transferred from the aegis of Ministry of Aviation to the Ordnungspolizei.
Sicherheits-und Hilfsdienst SHD 1935-1942 |
Luftschutzpolizei LS 1942-1943 |
Luftschutzpolizei LS-Pol 1943-1945 | |
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SHD-Mann | LS-Mann | Anwärter d. LS-Pol | |
Unterwachtmeister d. LS-Pol | |||
SHD-Truppführer | LS-Truppführer | Rottwachtmeister d. LS-Pol | |
SHD-Gruppenführer | LS-Gruppenführer | Wachtmeister d. LS-Pol | |
Oberwachtmeister d. LS-Pol | |||
SHD-Hauptgruppenführer | LS-Hauptgruppenführer | Zugwachtmeister d. LS-Pol | |
SHD-Stabsgruppenführer | LS-Stabsgruppenführer | Hauptwachtmeister d. LS-Pol | |
– |
– |
Meister d. LS-Pol | |
SHD-Zugführer | LS-Zugführer | Zugführer d. LS-Pol | |
SHD-Oberzugführer | LS-Oberzugführer | Oberzugführer d. LS-Pol | |
SHD-Bereitschaftsführer | LS-Bereitschaftsführer | Bereitschaftsführer d. LS-Pol | |
SHD-Abteilungsführer | LS-Abteilungsführer | Abteilungsführer d. LS-Pol | |
SHD-Abteilungsführer mit besonderem Auftrag | LS-Abteilungsleiter | Oberabteilungsführer d. LS-Pol |
The Civil Defence Officers and Assistant Civil Defence Officers of the Civil Defence Ireland are paid employees and are appointed by their respective local authority. At the discretion of the Civil Defence Officer, volunteer officers and leaders are appointed to assist in the command and administration of the unit .
Rank [5] | Civil Defence Officer |
Assistant Civil Defence Officer |
Commander | First Officer | Second Officer | Third Officer | Leader | Assistant Leader | Volunteer |
Ireland | |||||||||
Irish language equivalent[6] | Oifigeach Cosanta Sibhialta |
Leas-Oifigeach Cosanta Sibhialta |
Ceannasaí | Céad Oifigeach | Dara Oifigeach | Tríú Oifigeach | Ceannaire | Leas-Cheannaire | Saorálaí |
Abbreviation | CDO | ACDO | Cmdr | 1/O | 2/O | 3/O | Ldr | Asst Ldr | Vol |
Isle of Man Civil Defence Corps Ranks and Rank Insignia | |||||||||
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Rank | Emergency Planning Co-ordinator | Commandant | Deputy Commandant | Team Leader | Deputy Team Leader | Volunteer | |||
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
- Officers
- Other ranks
Rank group | General / flag officers | Senior officers | Junior officers | Officer cadet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ministry of Emergency Situations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Генера́л-полко́вник Generál-polkóvnik |
Генера́л-лейтена́нт Generál-leytenánt |
Генера́л-майо́р Generál-mayór |
Полко́вник Polkóvnik |
Подполко́вник Podpolkóvnik |
Майо́р Majór |
Kапита́н Kapitán |
Старший лейтена́нт Stárshiy leytenánt |
Лейтенант Leytenant |
Mла́дший лейтена́нт Mládshiy leytenánt |
Курсант Kursant |
Rank group | Senior NCOs | Junior NCOs | Enlisted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ministry of Emergency Situations |
n/a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ста́рший пра́порщик Stárshiy práporshchik |
Пра́порщик Práporshchyk |
Старшина́ Starshyná |
Ста́рший сержа́нт Stárshiy serzhánt |
Сержа́нт Serzhánt |
Мла́дший сержа́нт Mládshiy serzhánt |
Рядово́й Ryadovóy |
- Officers
Rank group | General / flag officers | Senior officers | Junior officers | Officer cadet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Singapore Civil Defence Force[10] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commissioner | Deputy commissioner | Senior assistant commissioner | Assistant commissioner | Colonel | Lieutenant colonel | Major | Captain | Lieutenant | Second lieutenant | Officer cadet |
- Warrant officers
Equivalent NATO rank |
WO-5 | WO-4 | WO-3 | WO-2 | WO-1 | |||||
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Singapore Civil Defence Force[10] | ||||||||||
Warrant officer 2 | Warrant officer 1 |
- Other ranks
Rank group | Senior NCOs | Junior NCOs | Enlisted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Singapore Civil Defence Force[10] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sergeant 3 | Sergeant 2 | Sergeant 1 | Corporal | Lance corporal | Private | Recruit |
- Officers
NATO code | OF-10 | OF-9 | OF-8 | OF-7 | OF-6 | OF-5 | OF-4 | OF-3 | OF-2 | OF-1 | OF(D) | Student officer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Military Emergencies Unit |
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General de división | General de brigada | Coronel | Teniente coronel | Comandante | Capitán | Teniente | Alférez |
- Other Ranks
NATO code | OR-9 | OR-8 | OR-7 | OR-6 | OR-5 | OR-4 | OR-3 | OR-2 | OR-1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Military Emergencies Unit |
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Suboficial mayor | Subteniente | Brigada | Sargento primero | Sargento | Cabo mayor | Cabo primero | Cabo | Soldado de primera | Soldado |
Function | Rank | Rank insignia |
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Civil Defence Commander | Oberst, Oberstleutnant, Major or Hauptmann | |
Deputy Civil Defence Commander | Major, Hauptmann or Oberleutnant | |
Head Damage Conditions
Head Telematics Head NBC Protection, Head Logistic Coordination Head Cultural Property Protection Platoon Leader Welfare Platoon Leader Support |
Leutnant
Promotion to Oberleutnant possible |
|
Chief Logistic Element | Feldweibel | |
Accounting and Budgeting Officer | Fourier | |
Squad Leader Telematics
Squad Leader Welfare Squad Leader Medical Squad Leader Support Kitchen Manager |
Korporal
Promotion to Wachtmeister possible |
|
Controller
Polycom-Dispatcher NBC-Tracker Radiation Protection Expert Psychological Emergency Aid Medical Orderly Facility Technician Materiel Technician Cultural Property Protection Specialist Command Support Aid Welfare Aid Sapper |
Zivilschutzsoldat
Promotion to Gefreiter possible |
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[11][12] | ||
- Civil Defence Corps 1949-1968
- Civil Defence Service 1935-1945
Insignia | Wardens' Service | First Aid | Rescue | Decontamination | Messenger |
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Controller | |||||
Chief Warden | Medical Officer | Head of Rescue Service |
Head of Decontamination Service |
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Deputy Chief Warden | Deputy Medical Officer | Deputy Head of Rescue Service |
Deputy Head of Decontamination Service |
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Divisional Warden | Ambulance Officer | Staff Officer | Gas Identification Officer | Officer (Senior Grade) | |
Staff Officer | Assistant Ambulance Officer | Assistant Staff Officer | Assistant Gas Identification Officer | Officer (Junior Grade) | |
Officer (London) | Senior Rescue Officer | ||||
Post Warden (London) | Depot Superintendent | Depot Superintendent | Depot Superintendent | ||
Head Warden | Deputy Depot Superintendent | Rescue Party Supervisor | Deputy Depot Superintendent | Officer | |
Senior Warden | Shift Officer | Rescue Party Leader | Squad Leader | Officer | |
Source: | [14] |
- Beredskabsstyrelsen (July 2018). Uniformsreglement (PDF) (in Danish). Birkerød: Beredskabsstyrelsen. p. 7.
- Beredskabsstyrelsen (May 2017). Grundbog for værnepligtige ved Beredskabsstyrelsen Maj 2017 [Basic book for conscripts at the National Emergency Management Agency May 2017] (in Danish). Beredskabsstyrelsen. p. 35. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
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- Шевроны, звезды и пластинки на погонах МЧС. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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- "Weisungen über die Dienstgrade im Zivilschutz." Kanton St. Gallen. Retrieved 2023-07-31.