KUZEY KIBRIS TÜRK CUMHURİYETİ’NDE POLİS MESLEK AHLAKI BÜTÜNLÜĞÜ: ADLİ POLİS MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ POLİS MENSUPLARININ ALGISI
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Bu çalışmanın amacı KKTC’deki Adli Polis Müdürlüğü polis mensuplarının polis meslek ahlakı bütünlüğü algılarını keşfetmektir. Çalışmada KKTC Polis Örgütünden yazılı izin alınmıştır. Klockars ve arkadaşları tarafından geliştirilen “polis meslek ahlakı bütünlüğü (polis meslek etiği) algılama anketi”nin ikinci versiyonu, KKTC’ye uyarlandıktan sonra 2013 yılı Aralık ayında Adli Polis Müdürlüğünde görevli polis mensuplarına uygulanmıştır. Anket verileri SPSS-20 istatistik programına aktarılmıştır. Verilerin analizinde aritmetik ortalama, mod, yüzde gibi betimleyici analizler; sıralama, eşli örneklemler t-testi, ki-kare testi, spearman korelasyonu gibi ilişkisel ve fark analizleri kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın sonuçlarına göre; senaryolarda tasvir edilen alkollü meslektaş kazasını rapor etmeme, tutukluya vurma, tutukluya vuran meslektaşlarını durdurmama ve esnaftan bedava yiyecek, içecek kabulü; en az ciddi görülen, en hafif disiplin işlemini gerektirdiği düşünülen ve büyük olasılıkla sessizlik kodu tarafından üzerinin örtüleceğine inanılan polis uygunsuz davranış türleri olarak değerlendirilmektedirler. Diğer taraftan, senaryolarda tasvir edilen olay mahallinden çakı hırsızlığı, komisyonculuk ve yalan yere resmi rapor düzenleme; en çok ciddi görülen, bu davranışlarda bulunan polis mensuplarının meslekten çıkarılmasını gerektiren ve sessizlik kodu tarafından güçlü bir şekilde desteklenmeyeceğine inanılan polis uygunsuz davranış türleri olarak değerlendirilmektedirler. Katılımcılar, Müdürlüklerindeki disiplin işlemlerini; amirin, memurunu özel işlerinde kullanması davranışına karşı hafif; geri kalan davranışlara karşı adil olarak algılamaktadırlar. Çalışma, katılımcıların en az ciddi olarak değerlendirdikleri davranışlarda sessizlik kodunun daha fazla güçlü olduğunu, en çok ciddi olarak değerlendirdikleri davranışlarda ise sessizlik kodunun daha fazla zayıf olduğunu ortaya çıkarmıştır. Ayrıca çalışma, Adli Polis Müdürlüğünde görevli polis mensuplarının yarıdan fazlasının, alkollü meslektaş kazasını rapor etmeme, tutukluya vurma ve çocuk istismarı zanlısını döven meslektaşlarını durdurmama davranışlarının, resmi kuralların ihlali olup olmadığından emin olmadıklarını ortaya koymaktadır.
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The aim of this study is to explore police officers’ perceptions about police integrity in the TRNC Criminal Investigation Directorate. In this study, written consent was obtained from the TRNC Police Organization. The second version of the police integrity questionnaire, developed by Klockars and colleagues, was adapted for the TRNC context, and then administered to the police officers employed in the Criminal Investigation Directorate in December 2013. Survey data were transferred to and analysied with SPSS-20 statistical program. Descriptive analysis, such as mean, mode, percentage, and correlational and differences analysis, such as rank, paired-t test, chi-square test, and Spearman’s correlation were used in data analysis. According to the results of the survey, police officers evaluated the actions of not reporting the colleague-involved DUI accidents, striking a prisoner, failing to halt beating a prisoner, and the acceptance of free meals and gratuities as the least serious forms of police misconduct, which require the most lenient disciplinary sanctions, and the most likely to be covered by the code of silence. On the other hand, police officers evaluated theft from a crime scene, kickback, and the falsification of the official report as the most serious forms of police misconduct that require dismissal of the police officer, and lacking strong support by the code of silence. Respondents perceived their directorate’s disciplinary actions for misconduct by a supervisor as lenient, while they rated for the rest of the scenarios as fair. The strength of the code of silence were also measured. It was found that the code was closely upheld for the behaviors evaluated as the least serious, and most weakly followed for the behaviors evaluated as the most serious. The study revealed that more than a half of the police officers in the Criminal Investigation Directorate were unsure whether cover-up of police DUI accident, striking a prisoner, and failing to halt beating a child abuser behaviors violated the official rules.
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