Sheriff

No matter how many precincts or guards a city boasts, there’s usually a single fi gure at whom the martial buck stops. This fi gure, the constable, is to the executive arena what the justice is to the judicial. In smaller towns, where there is little need for multiple layers of law enforcement, this offi cial is often known as the sheriff. In larger cities, he or she is akin to a chief of police, commanding multiple sheriffs who each report from a different district. The constable enforces the city’s laws and, should the government declare martial law, takes charge of its local army.