Police Culture and Personal Identity in South Africa

Faull, Andrew

doi:10.1093/police/pax016

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“…It is partly conditioned by the insufficient development level of police officers' professionally significantskills and competencies to perform protective actions. It is also caused by the stress to a large extent, which leads to muscular restraint, inattention, the lack of psychological readiness to apply coercive measures in extreme conditions (Chukhrayeva, 2016;Gül, & Delice, 2011). This is confirmed by the statistics on the deaths and injuries of police officers during the performance of official duties around the world.…”

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Formation of the Professionally Significant Skills and Competencies of Future Police Officers during Studying at Higher Educational Institutions

Bondarenko

Okhrimenko

Tverdokhvalova

et al. 2020

RREM

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The regulatory documents and scientific literature, which highlights the specifics of the study of the future officers of the Ukrainian National Police, were investigated. The analysis of the activity of police officers, who had to deal with armed and aggressive offenders, was analyzed. The conducted research substantiated the original methodology of the preparation of future police officers for contact with an offender, armed with a cold weapon, and tested its efficiency. The essence of the original methodology is to form the future police officers' professionally significant skills and competencies to apply coercive measures on the basis of the acquired special theoretical knowledge, introduced into the educational process of tactical and special training of simulated situational tasks and to develop professionally important psychological qualities. The study involved cadets, having entered educational institutions in 2016 (n=227), who were studying at the National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kyiv, Ukraine). The experimental (EG, n=111) and control (CG, n=116) groups were formed. The efficiency of the original methodology was evaluated by the indicators of theoretical and practical readiness of cadets and by the psychological qualities' development level. The results of the experiment showed the efficiency of the original methodology in comparison to the traditional one: theoretical preparedness of the EG cadets was improved by 46.8%, CG -by 2.4%; practical readiness of the EG cadets was increased by 37.3%, CG -by 5.1%. The high level of cadets' professionally significant skills acquired during studying contributed to the improvement of the efficiency of their future professional activity.

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Formation of the Professionally Significant Skills and Competencies of Future Police Officers during Studying at Higher Educational Institutions

Bondarenko

Okhrimenko

Tverdokhvalova

et al. 2020

RREM

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“…That the criminal justice system offers too much protection to those who break the law, was a common sentiment among officers interviewed. 37 Yet, for the vast majority of interviewees, it was clear that their disagreement was not with the reasons for protest, but the methods employed by protestors, which often involved damaging or burning property. A common view was that, although people have a right to protest, this often infringes on the rights of others.…”

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Democracy and its discontents: Protest from a police perspective

Brooks

2019

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In South Africa, media and scholarly research has increasingly drawn into question the correctness of police responses to post-1994 popular protest. Assessments of democratic policing, moreover, emphasise the critical role of the police in democratic development. Existing accounts of protest, however, seldom draw upon the assessments of individual police members. In an attempt to understand the challenges to democratic policing and the dynamics and complexities of protest, this article examines protest from the perspective of rank and file officers in the South African Police Service (SAPS). It shows, not only the importance of recognising bottom-up perspectives in constructing appropriate responses to protest, but the complexity of SAPS members’ own identities as both officers and citizens. Reports of police action indicate the sometimes unwarranted and disproportional use force. Yet, simultaneously, for many officers, protest seems to straddle their police and private lives, conferring on them a duty to enforce law and order, while experiencing the shortcomings of democracy themselves.

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“…Unlike coping, the psychological defense is a special system of personality stabilization aimed at consciousness defense against unpleasant, traumatic experiences, combined with internal and external conflicts, negative states of anxiety and discomfort. The functional purpose and aim of the mechanisms of psychological defense are to weaken the internal personal conflict between the unconscious needs and demands of the external environment resulting from social interaction (Faull, 2017;Granovskaya, 2007). By weakening this conflict, defense regulates human behavior and increases stress resistance.…”

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Coping Behavior of Criminal Police Officers at Different Stages of Professional Activity

Fedorenko

Dotsenko

Okhrimenko

et al. 2020

BRAIN

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The results of the investigation of the peculiarities of the coping behavior and mechanisms of psychological protection of police officers at different stages of professional activity are presented in the article. The study involved 65 criminal police officers, who were divided into two groups depending on the length of service: the first group included 30 policemen of the initial professional training who were just accepted for a job in criminal police units, their length of service was 3 months (46.2%); the second group consisted of 35 officers of criminal police units with 5-15 years of service experience (53.8%). Research methods: theoretical methods involved the analysis and generalization of the provisions of social and psychological literature, classification; the empirical methods-psychodiagnostic test methods, including the questionnaire called "Professional Burnout", the questionnaire for coping strategies, the questionnaire of Life Style Index. The majority of the police officers of both groups were determined to have a low level of professional burnout. It was diagnosed that when solving complex problems, police officers use similar copings (problem-solving planning, self-control, search for social support, careful actions) and the same mechanisms of psychological defense against stress (rationalization, projection, and objection) at different stages of professional activity. A number of statistically significant correlations were found between occupational burnout rates and psychological defense mechanisms and copings.

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Police Culture and Personal Identity in South Africa

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

Formation of the Professionally Significant Skills and Competencies of Future Police Officers during Studying at Higher Educational Institutions

Formation of the Professionally Significant Skills and Competencies of Future Police Officers during Studying at Higher Educational Institutions

Democracy and its discontents: Protest from a police perspective

Coping Behavior of Criminal Police Officers at Different Stages of Professional Activity

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