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How do police officers perceive certain characteristics of the formal police management?

The main objective of the research was to establish the relationship between certain perceived characteristics of police management and relevant characteristics of police officers (potentially related to these perceptions). Specifically, we have determined the correlation between police officer’s age and work experience and perceived level of the development of the individual characteristics (together with the estimated importance of these characteristics) of police managers (knowledge/skills), as well as with perceived organisational and legal characteristics of the police system (the principles of the appointment and dismissal of police managers). Moreover, we have determined the gender differences in perception of abovementioned characteristics of the police management, as well as differences according to the category of police department where police officers are working. The sample examined in this study comprised 132 police officers, who are currently attending the study programme of Criminal Investigation at the Police College in Zagreb, Croatia. This study revealed that social skills (as the component of the principles of the appointment and dismissal of police managers) are the only dependent variable that distinguish the perception of according to independent variable police department (in the second category of the police department, the highest mean is revealed, while the lowest mean is found in the fourth category). No gender differences are found. Neither age nor experience have statistically significant correlations, nor with the characteristics associated with knowledge / skills of police managers, nor with the principles of the appointment and dismissal of police managers.

perceived characteristics ; police management ; relationships

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