Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training (DOCJT) Entrance Exam 1 Practice

Capitalization of official titles is being tested. When a title names a specific office and stands for that position, the major words in the title are capitalized even if no name follows. Here, Chief of Police designates the head of a police department, a particular office, so both words are treated as part of the formal title and capitalized. The sentence starts with The, which is correctly capitalized anyway, and Capitalizing Chief and Police signals that this is a formal title referring to a specific role. The other versions either lowercase the title or miscapitalize one of the words, which changes the sense from a specific office title to a generic description. In ordinary, non-title usage, you might write the lowercase chief of police, but in this formal reference to a position, The Chief of Police spoke is correct.