Police Management Studies
Year:2009 | Volume:4 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

The present research aims at accessing IRI Police (IRIP) commanders and managers’ empowerment pattern. IRIP top, middle and operational commanders and managers were randomly selected as the research samples (n=1100). The collected data was analyzed through using Kolmogorov–Smirnov, Friedman and Kruskal–Wallis tests. The results of the research indicated that 27 factors with an average of around 60 to 87% affect IRIP commanders and managers’ empowerment. The factors have formed a desirable pa􀆩ern through three dimensions and eight groups as follows:- Personal dimension: group of psychoanalysis, Islamic, revolutionary and professional factors;- Organizational dimension: managerial, structural and organizational nature strategies;- Environmental dimension: legal, economic, cultural and political, and social environment.Among the 27 factors, three factors: faith, combating oppression and community-oriented manner have had the highest impact, while three factors: social and political environment and leadership style have had the lowest impact.

Background: Low efficiency of traditional methods of policymaking and decision making in materialization of organizations’ objectives is the major reason for weaker role of applying traditional decision-making models. On this basis, the tendency toward using network models in common policy making among social organizations has become an essential and critical issue.Objective: The present research, surveys the level of responsibility and reasons of inefficiency of the present policy making structure (hierarchical) IRI Police (IRIP) (criminal investigation department (CID) and drug law enforcement department) in relation with the objectives of the organization, and also the factors effective in having tendency (network structure and management) toward using network patterns in organizational policy making and decision makings.Material and Methods: The method used in the research is descriptive and correlative. The questionnaire’s reliability & validity (a=0.83) was acceptable. Data was gathered from 120 randomly selected experts. c2 Score and Kendall coefficient tested the research hypotheses.Findings: The results indicate the effect of independent variables over the dependent ones. Therefore, it is pretty essential for police organizations to pay attention to the important role of these factors in their policy makings. In this way they can witness improvement in three structural, managerial and cultural fields such as making efforts to make organizations’ structure more flexible, removing the existing structural gaps, reinforcing strong and weak links in the relationship among policy maker organizations, etc. to facilitate macro-policy making in the organization of CID and drug law enforcement department, as well.

Introduction & Background: Existence of a reasonable level of security for all the citizens is chief among the important indicators of social healthy life in every society; in addition it is through security that citizens can lead their own daily political, social and cultural activities. The present research aims at scientific identification and management of hot spots wherein variables of “problematic venues and times” have been in relation with the place where police forces in Qazvin city are settled.Materials and Methods: The method used here is incorporation of comparative and analytical methods. Office Excel software was used for statistical and graphic analysis in the form of a combination of GIS software, crime analysis software in Arcview environment, case in ArcGIS environment. The method for implementation of the research is applying a new managerial viewpoint based on dividing the domain of police force performance of all police stations to substations.Findings: Findings indicated that spatial distribution of the most important hot spots, especially hot spots of burglary in Qazvin is based on the classifications in the operational domain of police performance. It includes Modares police station No.11 substation 3 post 2, Bahonar police station No.13 Block No.1, Ghiasabad police station No. 17 substation 1 of Dehkhoda post 3 and Bazaar police station No.12 substation 2 post 2. Conclusions: Offering expertise patrol schedules by various crimes of burglary which comprehensively led to the optimized preparation of the forces with respect to areas’ risk coefficient, carrying out on-time patrols in critical places and times, where and when various types of burglary occurs, enhancing feeling responsible, enhancing police missions’ efficiency, promoting usefulness feeling due to optimized utilization of the forces’ potential.

Introduction: Unexpected accidents and calamities are uncontrollable events, which always occur in different corners of the world such as Iran. Hence, military hospitals of the border regions as the most important military medical centers of the world, which offer medical services to probable injured people in crises, should have proper and cohesive programs to combat crises in all dimensions. The comments made by managers of three military border hospitals in relation with regional crises.Methods: The research is of descriptive type and conducted in 2008. The data was collected through using a standard questionnaire whose reliability and validity was approved. The data was analyzed through using descriptive statistical methods (frequency distribution table, mean, etc.). Findings: The findings indicated that 95.2% of the managers were male and with average managerial experience of 10.3 years. Sixty-five percent of the managers had attended crisis and hospital management courses and 52.6% of them were aware of their regions crises. Riot and earthquake crisis with equal probability of 76.2% occurred more than other crises or were most probable from their viewpoint. According to 50% of the managers of hospitals under survey, there are short term and long-term plans in 52.6% and 47.7% of the hospitals, respectively to.Conclusion: Generally speaking, the managers’ comments indicated that more than half of the managers knew crises very well; however, could not respond to the crises properly. Therefore, with respect to the strong probability of occurrence of crises such as earthquake, riot and disorder in the under survey regions, it is necessary to design full-scale programs to promote the potential of hospitals to deal with crises, especially the above-mentioned crises.

The present research aims at developing and determining the reliability of the questionnaire used for choosing police personnel job group. All police forces- managers, experts and players in six job groups: law enforcement, traffic, intelligence, crime investigation, administrationlogis tics and border guarding were randomly selected (n=2422). In order to prepare the required tool, the present research was conducted in three stages. At the first stage of the research the required characteristics and indices of police forces’ job groups in the six earlier mentioned job groups was dealt with based on their job descriptions, theoretical principles, the conducted researches and the comments of those who play roles in this regard. At the second stage in order to examine the reliability and validity of the questionnaire, managers and experts were requested to answer the questions (n=443). And finally at the third stage, 1011 police forces were provided with the questionnaire to be answered. The method used in the research is of descriptive type. The results of the research in the three above –mentioned stages indicate that the required characteristics of the six earlier mentioned job groups are of various types. Secondly, the initial questionnaire has acceptable level of reliability and validity. Thirdly, the original questionnaire has validity coefficient of 0.96, which estimated at 0.89 in reevaluation method and 0.83 at halving method. The questionnaire has apparent, content based, distinctive and simultaneous reliability, in such a way that it can differentiate between strong and weak groups. On the other hand, based on analysis made on the findings it came out that in specialized job groups of police, all the groups except law enforcement job group in addition to common characteristics and indices, they have specialized characteristics, as well.

The present research aims at identifying the professional and social prestige of police in Iran and factors impacting it. Identifying the precise social prestige of police and factors contributing to it requires conducting some researches. Therefore, the research methodology has tested the aforesaid issue through analyzing secondary data. The findings of the research indicate that the professional and social prestige of the Iranian police is mediocre; however, has tendency toward upward. The police prestige, to some extent, depends on the respondents’ gender and education. In other words, ladies compared with men on one hand; and educated people compared with other members of the society consider more value for professional and social prestige of the police. However, the factor which has the highest effectiveness over Iranian police’s prestige is its effective police-related characteristics. That is to say, police potency and its dispensation during carrying out its tasks and its manner of performance leads to promoting its prestige. Therefore, the police are strongly recommended to enhance its potency and dispensation while performing its tasks to promote the police’s prestige.

Introduction: Iran has one of the highest rates of traffic-related mortality in the world. Informative-educational Campaign using mass media to prevent health-endangering behaviors have been always the center of attention of health experts. Examining the results of the informative-educational campaign in terms of preventing traffic accidents in various communities has been always effective in choosing a proper solution to reduce the rate of risky behaviors in driving, and death.Methods: In this review study, a search was carried out through PUBMED and EBSCO Databases using related keywords, references, and articles of expert authors related to the topic. In this search, related articles were selected and analyzed to find the interferences through which the informative-educational campaign has been designed and implemented while aiming at preventing traffic accidents among motorists, passengers, motorcyclists, bicyclists and pedestrians.Results: Proper design and implementation of the campaigns leads to less costly access to a wider range of audience. Economical analysis of the impact of these programs shows that social benefits have more impact than the expenses used for it.Conclusion: Success of such programs depends on their accompanying supplementary school-oriented and community-oriented programs. Presence of health experts along with media professionals in the process for designing programs enhances efficiency and effectiveness of these measures.