commanders of other headquarters departments. The rank badge, worn on the epaulettes, is a bath star ("pip") below a crown, the same rank badge worn by a lieutenant-colonel in the British Army. Metropolitan Police chief superintendents wore a crown over two stars until the abolition of the rank of superintendent grade I in 1974, after which they changed to the latter's rank badge, which was already worn by chief superintendents elsewhere in the country. A chief superintendent's annual salary starts at £81,156 and rises to £85,614 with an additional London weighting of £2,373 (as of April 2019). References Police ranks Police ranks in the United Kingdom