Interpretix, your 'facts' are very dubious. Equating UK police ranks directly to military commissioned ranks, starting off at OF1 = Constable, just because they are 'officers' is very strange. Even using a simplistic approach, based on language alone, is flawed; a lance corporal is an 'officer', all be it a non-commissioned officer, and coppers are warrented not commissioned, hence would equate to only WO2 & WO 1. Anyway, I thought they were all constables in the eyes of the law, hence coppers have senior officers but no superior officer and a probationer can arrest a chief constable.
Leaving aside the fact that the jobs and career structures are very different, if you are looking for equivalency you might want to try a straight forward comparison of rank badges. This itself is a highly dubious approach at lower and medium rank levels, given that all coppers start off as constables, but by the time you get to the more senior ranks it is more valid. A chief superintendant running a division would have several hundered constables answering to him/her, not too different from a cdr/lt col/wg cdr in command.
What exactly was your point anyway - that a baby 'scuffer' should be a pilot officer? What rank would the dog be?
