편의점 방범인증제에 대한 경찰관들의 인식 및 개선방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

As crimes against convenience stores increase in Korea, the National police Agency initiated the convenience store security certification system in order to prevent crimes in convenience stores in 2013. This system leads stores to improve working environment autonomously and assign a certification mark to a convenience store which gained an accreditation from the police by having secure facilities over a certain level. The system has a considerable significance in crime prevention through cooperative policing since the stores do not depend solely on the public policing but propel self-efforts for their store security, and the police certify the store formally. But, it is quite surprising that few research has been conducted about the convenience store security certification system. So far a couple of researches upon local residents and employees of stores have been conducted, but a research targeting police officers in Korea has not been carried out. So, we conducted a survey study on the police officers in Police Training Institute about the necessity, effectiveness of convenience store security certification system and the adequacy of the assessment criteria to gain the basic data for the improvement. Findings of this research can be summarized as follows. Police officers generally have positive perceptions about the necessity, effectiveness, assessment criteria of the system. However, they are ill-informed about the detailed contents of the system and consider some parts of criteria should be upgraded to respond to the worsening crime targeting the convenience stores. Based on this results, we can provide suggestions for improvement. First, the assessment criteria of the certification requirements need to be improved. And resources need to be allocated appropriately so that particular personnel with proper expertise can be in charge of the certification program. In addition specific measures to reduce the workloads of the officers must be implemented as well. Also, the publicity activities of the system for police officers and store owners have to be reinforced and particular incentives should be offered for store owners to employ and apply for the certification. Finally, opinions and feedback of the convenience store industry must be taken into account in operating the system to revitalize the system.