BAD POLICE

BAD POLICE

BAD POLICE

Introduction

The purpose of this research paper is to describe the bad police and the characteristics and traits associated with bad police. Every picture has two sides, good or bad; similarly the officers in police are also divided into two categories, good and bad. The category of bad police includes those people, who do not perform their work efficiently, do not work against crime and violence and instead they do conduct crimes and commit unlawful movements.

Discussion

After more than 30 years of research and theorizing on police occupational deviance, the conceptual understanding of police deviance has been greatly enhanced. Understanding the concept of deviance has become a complex task as the initial concept of a single, unified occupational culture of police officers that maintain a homogeneous belief system or “police personality” has been replaced by an alternative conceptualization of diversity, variation, and contrast within the police organization and occupation . This alternative view criticizes the characterization of police as people with a single disposition and favours the claim that different groups of officers within a single police organization may adhere to different norms, values, and work practices. In other words, despite the fact that the police are socialized into the occupational culture through training, field experiences, and interactions with peers and supervisors (e.g. the police occupational culture is designed to produce conformity to traditional norms and values of the occupation and organization; individual officers remain the mediators of their behaviours and actions. Individual officers make their own adaptations and construct their own organizational reality based on their reading of social and political situations, their personal interests, and their varying experiences in the organization. Between May 2008 and March 2009, the National Police investigated 129 cases of violations by officers, resulting in 81 court cases and 49 officers being fired.

“A number of cases are still at trial,” National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri told the Globe.

But the internal battle to create good cops is a tough challenge. Public complaints about police extorting money are commonplace, with gangs of bad cops roaming the system . Worse, the so-called bad police are still free to roam around the city to prey on people.

In April, dozens of pharmacy owners in North and Central Jakarta went public about a police gang that had been blackmailing them for five years. The officers would burst into their shops, grab medicines, claim they were “illegal drugs” and give the owners two choices: pay up or go to jail.

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says the National Police have been accused of more human rights violations so far this year than any other state agency. Nur Cholis, a member of the monitoring division of Komnas HAM, said that of the 202 complaints filed, 180 of them were against police.

“The figure shows that the police still prefer to use force in solving problems, while claiming they have become community police who favour persuasive measures,” Nur Cholis said, adding that the complaints ranged from torture during interrogation, to ...