프랑스 경찰 복지정책 사례 및 시사점

Abstract

Police officers are often placed in high-risk and high-intensity work environments due to their job characteristics. It has been observed that in the departments which have a 24-hour work system the shift-work and lack of manpower makes it difficult for police officers to balance work and family life as well as to care of their health. However, there were a lot of internal and external critiques whict indicated that the responsibility and support given to police officers were not enough. Their physical and mental health problems were regarded as individual problems; moreover, was popular demand in the organizational culture sacrifice private life for the sake of carrying out police duties. Newer demands have emerged that require the recruitment of suitable talents and improvement in the social value of the police officers through offering proper treatment and rational motivation that correspond with their social duties. It has been observed that improvements in the working conditions of police officers and their quality of life leads to an improvement in their quality of services and in the efficiency of the police administration. Considering this, in 2012, the government established the -Police Public Health, Safety and Welfare Basic Act- to ensure that police officers were able to concentrate on their work and were able to carry out their services with pride. This Act provides a legal and institutional system that promotes the health, safety and welfare of police officers. This study analyses various French police welfare policies, and determines implications for establishing improved police welfare policies. For this purpose, this study analyzes the existing detailed policies of police welfare, regarding treatment, pension, leave and vacation and work and family balance.