The introduction of local police system is an urgent problem and the main current as a systematic method for police officers abiding by the rapidly changing situation in public peace, their being respected by the people and their becoming incorruptibl...
The introduction of local police system is an urgent problem and the main current as a systematic method for police officers abiding by the rapidly changing situation in public peace, their being respected by the people and their becoming incorruptible, friendly and reliable towards the people.
After the establishment of president Rohs participatory government at the right moment, the introduction of the local police system has been strongly promoted as a part of the policy towards decentralization; therefore, Presidential Committee on Government Innovation & Decentralization and National Police Agency has been seriously investigating its introduction appropriate to the reality of our country.
Nevertheless, it might be possible for the majority of police officers to be excluded in the process of its study and investigation even if they are those who would perform their duties in the frame of the local police system, while the majority of the police officers do not become a subject but an object in its introduction, only by reflecting the opinions of a few persons in charge or top executives and experts; as a consequence, it is apprehended that the police officers might be cynical and indifferent to its introduction.
Therefore, it is considered important how the police officers think of its introduction so that this study will focus on the internal aspects rather than external circumstances surrounding police. In this aspect, the following questionnaires were answered and collected: the receptive attitudes towards its introduction by the function of the place, by the government office and by the origin of entering the office of the police officers; the range of its introduction; the location of the local police organizations; and the conversion of the ranks into local police officers. Based on these questionnaires, I have suggested some important issues relating to its introduction.
Firstly, 64.4 percents of the police officers who responded to the questionnaires were in favor of the introduction of the local police system so that it could be noticed that their receptive attitudes towards its introduction have changed a lot more positive than those in the past.
Secondly, as already mentioned in the road map in regard of the decentralization of the participatory government, it is seemingly possible not to have any frictions internally even with the swift enforcement of the local police system because more than 60 percents of the police officers favors its introduction in 2006 or 2007 through the presumable study & investigation and its process of legalizing from 2004 to 2005.
Thirdly, one needs to study and investigate the standards that would be the most appropriate to the purpose of its introduction in its zero-base, not only thinking of its application in the level of metropolitan autonomous entities, but also keeping it in mind that almost 30 percents of the respondents is in favor of its introduction in the sphere of local autonomous entities.
Fourthly, with regards to the location of the local police organizations functioned as a sub-agency or an immediate agency, 85.3 percents of the respondents, which is the absolute majority, demanded its installation independent of the local autonomous entity because of the possible corruption wrought by the interruption of local politicians.
Fifthly, 30.4 percents of the respondents thought that all police officers should become local civil servants in order to let the justification of its introduction come true more completely with regards to the conversion of the ranks of local police officers into local civil servants in its introduction; therefore, one has to consider that special ranks should be kept as national civil servants.
Sixthly, the majority of the police officers think of the local police system as public satisfaction and peace and the development of the entire organizations; however, others tend to evaluate it on behalf of individual interests or groundless and ambiguous suppositions. Therefore, there should be proper and objective education on the justification and management of the local police system.
Seventhly, there should be some policy towards stirring up the morale through the restoration of the identity of the police officers triggered by the introduction of the local police system.
As already mentioned above, the introduction of the local police system is an inevitable main current. It has come to a conclusion that the recognition of incumbent police officers has greatly become mature with regards to the local police system seen from the questionnaires answered by them.
Therefore, there should be systematic methods to reflect the opinions of the police officers equipped with many experiences and know-how in terms of public peace from the step of its study and investigation of the most appropriate model to that of its settlement; in addition to this, politicians, local autonomous entities and all relevant groups including the police organizations should not think of their own hegemony but think of the people first in this country.