Senior sergeant

A Senior sergeant is often a rank of non-commissioned officer used in the armed forces of many nations. It is usually placed above sergeant.

Police in Australia and New Zealand use the rank Senior Sergeant as a rank above sergeant, but below an Inspector. The rank is equivalent to an Inspector in the Metropolitan Police or a Lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department.^[1][2][3]

Countries

Denmark

In the Danish Defence, there are two senior sergeant ranks, Oversergent (lit. 'Upper/Senior sergeant') and Seniorsergent (lit. 'Senior sergeant'). However, the Danish Defence officially translates the rank with the equivalents in the British Armed Forces,^[4] as such the ranks have different official translations depending on the branch.

NATO Code	OR-8	OR-7
Danish	Seniorsergent	Oversergent
Royal Danish Army[5]
English[6]	Warrant officer class II	Sergeant first class
Royal Danish Navy[7]
English[8]	Senior chief petty officer	Chief petty officer
Royal Danish Air Force[9]
English[10]	Warrant officer	Flight sergeant

Russia

Senior sergeant (Russian: Ста́рший сержант, romanized: Stárshiy serzhant) is the designation to the second highest rank in the non-commissioned officer's career group in the Army, Airborne troops, and Air Force of the Russian Federation.^[11] The rank is equivalent to Glavny starshina in Navy.

The rank was introduced in the Red Army in 1940.

Insignia of senior sergeants

Army

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  ԱՎԱԳ ՍԵՐԺԱՆՏ
  Avag Serzhant
  (Armenian Ground Forces)^[12]
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  Baş çavuş
  (Azerbaijani Land Forces)^[13]
• 
  Старшы сяржант
  Staršy siaržant
  (Belarusian Ground Forces)^[14]
• 
  Stariji vodnik
  (Bosnian Ground Forces)^[15]
• 
  Старши сержант
  Starshi serzhant
  (Bulgarian Land Forces)^[16]
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  Nadnarednik
  (Croatian Army)^[17]
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  Seniorsergent
  (Royal Danish Army)^[5]
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  Vanemseersant
  (Estonian Ground Forces)^[18]
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  Översergeant
  (Finnish: Ylikersantti)
  (Finnish Army)^[19]
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  უფროსი სერჟანტი
  Uprosi serzhant'i
  (Georgian Land Forces)^[20]
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  Аға сержант
  Ağa serjant
  (Kazakh Ground Forces)^[21]
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  Улук сержант
  Uluk serjant
  (Kyrgyz Army)^[22]
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  Vyresnysis seržantas
  (Lithuanian Land Force)^[23]
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  Постар водник
  Postar vodnik
  (North Macedonian Ground Forces)^[24]
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  Aхлах ахлагч
  Akhlakh akhlagch
  (Mongolian Ground Force)^[25]
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  Stariji vodnik
  (Montenegrin Ground Army)^[26]
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  Oversersjant
  (Norwegian Army)^[27]
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  Starszy sierżant
  (Polish Army)^[28]
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  Ста́рший сержа́нт
  Stárshiy serzhánt
  (Russian Ground Forces)^[11]
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  Старији водник
  Stariji vodnik
  (Serbian Army)^[29]
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  Višji vodnik
  (Slovenian Ground Force)^[30]
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  Översergeant
  (Swedish Army)^[31]
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  Сержанти калон
  Serƶanti kalon
  (Tajik Ground Forces)^[32]
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  Uly seržant
  (Turkmen Ground Forces)^[33]
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  Старший сержант
  Starshyy serzhant
  (Ukrainian Ground Forces)^[34]
• 
  Katta serjant
  (Uzbek Ground Forces)^[35]

Police

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  New Zealand Police
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  New South Wales Police Force
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  Victoria Police
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  Queensland Police Service
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  Tasmania Police
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  Western Australia Police Force
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  Australian Federal Police
• 
  South Australia Police
• 
  Northern Territory Police Force

See also

• Sergeant
• Junior sergeant