Western Australia Police Misconduct And What Culture Needs...

Introduction The main task and duty of law enforcement officers is to maintain a safe and protected place for its people. Western Australia police is one of the eight authorities in Australia and is primary responsible for handling the world’s biggest single jurisdiction wrapping an area of 2.5 million square kilometres with two regions, fourteen boroughs and one hundred fifty eight police posts. (WA POLICE 2014) However, in a report last 2010 by Trever Paddenbburg of the Sunday Times, one out of ten western Australian officers stated that corruption, improper and illegal behavior sparks within the ranks of the WA force. The exit questionnaires revealed several negative situations happening in the organization. The exit questionnaires are†¦show more content†¦The way of the policing part has made a culture particular to that facility. Like any authoritative society, police society comprises of generally imparted dispositions, qualities and standards. What separates police society from other authoritative societies are the strains that begin in the nature s domain. (Paoline, Meyers and Worden 2000) It is by and largely acknowledged that there is an immediate association between police work and an â€Å"exceptional occupational society†. (Chan 1999, Skolnick and Fyfe1993, Manning and Van Maanen 1978, Reiner 1992) Loftus (2010) used the term ‘sociological orthodoxy’ that tackles about conventional aspects of police culture. These aspects are discussed as: a sense of mission towards its role as a police and having the zest of crime-oriented tasks and guarantees thrill; the gala of mannish exploitation; enforcing and engaging to the use of force and unofficial practices; distrust; pessimism, social segregation and narrow-mindedness towards those who challenges the rules and regulations mandated. (Reiner 1992, Bayley 1996) The effect of authoritative society is regularly oblivious by parts of the association (Clampitt2010) As a result, police officers may be unacquainted of the exertion of pressure that is being pushed on them by the organisation, or the influence