In February 1855 he was sent out to the Crimea to act as chief of staff to the army commander Lord Raglan.

A series of chargés d'affaires acted as chief of mission.

Until the treaty, the Navajos governed themselves in clan units with the eldest or medicine man acting as head or chief.

During the Boer War he acted as chief of staff to French.

In a commune with more than one commissaire, the most senior, who acted as chief of police, was called the commissaire central.

He acted as national chief from February 2006 until his election later in November of the same year.

Specifically, the governor acts as chief of police, holds the authority of a county governor and enacts family law.

The Governor of Svalbard acts as chief of police for Svalbard.

The magistrate acted as chief of police, judge and jury.

Cedric, seated in equal rank among his countrymen, seemed yet, by common consent, to act as chief of the assembly.