Community Policing and Officers’ Job Satisfaction

Abstract

This study summarizes the literature on officer job satisfaction in community policing. The aim of this study is to examine the general determinants officer job satisfaction, and assesses the effects of the implementation of community policing programs on police officer job satisfaction. More specifically, the identification of how satisfied officers are with various factors is essential for police administrator. Socio- demographic factors, such as education, age, race, gender, and year of service in dependently determine the officer attitudes toward community policing. However, work environments also affect it fundamentally. In addition, the analysis seeks to examine whether work environments are better than individual characteristics. Job satisfaction issue has, since 1974, through August 2015, more than a thousand additional articles, numerous of studies. Nevertheless, among these studies only 34 focus on police officer. Findings indicate that first; police officers engaged community-policing programs would have a positive effecton satisfaction of officers have become the main objective of police departments. Second, job autonomy and feedback have positive effecton this issue. However, colleagues and superintendents’ feedback are overwhelmingly negative. Overall, these findings suggest that community-policing implementation has an overwhelmingly positive effect. To measure officers’ job satisfaction needs to focus on multidimensional studies though future research