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Personally, I mostly use the term "duty" or "service" class for guns intended for uniform holster wear by police & military.
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Right, and that leads to two different classes of handguns.
Police weapons tend to be striker fired, simple, smaller, hicaps like Glocks and the modern plastic M&Ps and military guns are larger hammer fired deals like the mk23, M9, M45... which then gets us back to the main pistol families of striker vs. hammer and plastic vs. metal.
And honestly all manufacturers make gun families that are derived or directly service related--so the "ELITE TACTICAL SUPER BLACK OPS" P226 is no different than its more ordinary base model brethren in terms of form factor or internals--it's the same MIM parts, springs, mags and firing pins.
I have a Colt CCO, which is labeled as a "Law Officer's" model, even if I haven't seen too many cops carrying small 1911s these days. Is it a Combat Pistol, a carry pistol, or a police service pistol. It isn't butch like my HK45, but will outshoot it on any day and is every bit as reliable.