Sheriff vs Detective - What's the difference?
sheriff | detective |
(British, except Scotland) (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders and other duties.
(Scotland) A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.
(US) A police officer, usually the chief of police for a county or other district.
(law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
As nouns the difference between sheriff and detective
is that sheriff is (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders and other duties while detective is a police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.As a verb sheriff
is to carry out the duties of a sheriff.sheriff
English
Noun
(en noun)Alternative forms
* shrieve (obsolete)Derived terms
* sheriffalty * sheriffdom * sheriffry * sheriffship * sheriffwickdetective
English
(wikipedia detective)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}
