경찰간부후보생출신 경찰관들에 대한 경찰관들의 평가

Abstract

Few studies have investigated the police cadet graduates (PCG) while they have worked as the mainstream police officers in South Korea for more than sixty years. This research was an attempt to reveal the evaluation of the police officers on the PCG based on a survey of the 261 police sergeants. In order to compare the result with the previous study on the police university graduates (PUG) which recently received much of the attention from the researchers, I employed almost the same survey instrument and sample that was used in the previous study. It was found that police sergeants' evaluations on PCG were generally bad, especially compared with those on the PUG. It was also found that respondents thought PCG have caused numerous problems: they do not mix well with other police officers and were privileged to become lieutenants. On the other hand, respondents believed that they did not significantly contribute to the police organization. As a result, more than half of the respondents said that PCG were not essential to the development of the police and therefore should be reduced or even abolished. It was suggested that future research should investigate the reason for the negative assessment and find a way to relieve the trouble