Green’s Dictionary of Slang

up there adv.

(US) at the highest level, e.g. of police officers.

[UK]W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 175: ‘I really pulled one this time, didn’t I? I even went Tom Rodney one better. He never married over a million bucks.’ ‘Who did? No racketman that I ever heard of. You’re sure up there’.