Education and its effects on police officer job performance: the perceived views from both Chattanooga police officers and society

This study was designed to examine the relationship between a police officer's level of education and the perception of education on police officer job performance. Specifically, the researcher hypothesized that police officers with college degrees were perceived to perform their duties better than officer's without any college experience. In order to test this hypothesis, the researcher conducted a survey questionnaire which was administered to numerous police officers who work for the Chattanooga Police Department and civilians within the Chattanooga community. Overall, most of the respondents felt that officers should only be required to have a high school diploma (35.4%). According to statistical analysis, no significant relationship was found between level of education and perception of officer performance.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Stone, Heather

Contributors dc:contributor

• Berry, Phyllis E.
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Police professionalization--United States
• Police--Vocational guidance--United States

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Identifier

LB2369.2 .S866 2004

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2125