Too many chiefs

We are told that the country is going to have a serious crisis with all senior gardaí leaving the force shortly.

Having studied the officer ratio to men in military and semi-military organisations it would appear that we have too many officer grades. The full compliment of gardaí in Ireland is one commissioner, 3 deputy commissioners, 13 assistant commissioners, 50 chief superintendents, 178 superintendents, 307 inspectors, 2,173 sergeants, and 11,821 gardaí giving an average of one officer to ever four gardaí. The Irish army has two star privates, three star private/trooper/gunner, corporal, sergeant, company/battery quartermaster sergeant, company/battery sergeant, battalion/regimental quartermaster sergeant, battalion/regimental sergeant major.The commissioned ranks consist of junior cadet, senior cadet, second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, commandant, lieutenant colonel, colonel, brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, a ratio of about 1:3.

A full time fire brigade station has one chief officer, one deputy chief officer, one second officer, one third officer, one station officer, two sub officers and two leading firemen. There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians.