| 100% | GUNDERSON | 9 | Chief of police in Fargo, Marge __ |
| 47% | BERIA | 5 | Lavrentiy —, Soviet chief of secret police portrayed by Simon Russell Beale in 2017 film comedy The Death of Stalin |
| 45% | OFFICERBIGMAC | 13 | McDonaldland's chief of police: 3 wds. |
| 45% | HOPPER | 6 | Jim ___, chief of police on "Stranger Things" |
| 45% | PARINGMASTER | 12 | Chief of the kitchen police? |
| 43% | RAHMEMANUEL | 11 | Chief of staff in the Obama White House |
| 43% | ZEUS | 4 | Chief of the Olympian gods, in Greek myth |
| 42% | OUTOFTIME | 9 | 2003 film in which Denzel Washington plays a police chief suspected of stealing money and killing his lover: 3 wds. |
| 42% | OKHRANA | 7 | Secret police in period of Russian tsars |
| 42% | TOPIC | 5 | Chief in charge of subject |
| 41% | CONSTABLE | 9 | Lowest rank of police officer in the UK |
| 41% | TOMMY | 5 | CBS series featuring Edie Falco as the first woman LAPD chief of police |
| 41% | RODSTEIGER | 10 | Oscar-winning portrayer of Police Chief Bill Gillespie, 1967 |
| 40% | CAVOUR | 6 | Chief architect of Italian unification in 1870 |
| 40% | NARK | 4 | Police informer, in London (anagram of "rank") |
| 40% | REDEAGLE | 8 | Chief in the Creek War of 1813-14 |
| 40% | CARRIELAM | 9 | Chief Executive of Hong Kong appointed in 2017 |
| 40% | POPE | 4 | Assistant Police Chief in "The Closer" |
| 39% | PRESIDENT | 9 | Title of a commander in chief |
| 39% | IDRISELBA | 9 | Voice of Chief Bogo in "Zootopia" |
| 39% | OSS | 3 | Joint Chiefs of Staff agcy. that became the CIA in 1945 |
| 39% | BOUVIER | 7 | Maiden name of Marge in The Simpsons |
| 39% | GEENA | 5 | Davis of "Commander in Chief" |
| 39% | DAVIS | 5 | Geena of "Commander in Chief" |
| 38% | SELMA | 5 | Sister of Marge and Patty in The Simpsons |
| 38% | MILAN | 5 | City in Lombardy; chief financial centre of Italy |
| 38% | DOGE | 4 | Former chief magistrate in the republic of Venice |
| 38% | RALPH | 5 | Boy elected chief in “Lord of the Flies” |
| 38% | UNSUB | 5 | Unknown perpetrator of a crime, in police slang |
| 38% | PEORIA | 6 | Home of the Chiefs in minor-league baseball |