Integrity test for police officers

Abstract

On the scale of sociological evaluation, the police profession ranks high among the most difficult professions because it poses everyday challenges to its employees, testing their courage, honesty, nobility and professionalism. Police functions should be viewed in a wider context than the one which reduces them only to accomplishing order and system in a state. They should be viewed in the context of materializing the protective function of a state, which protects the highest values in a society, as a prerequisite for a successful coexistence of people. By implementing the police functions, precisely those highest values are achieved, such as property, freedom, dignity, and even life. Because of this, every society gives the police a difficult task to have individuals of the highest integrity in their ranks, because only they can make the state reaction legitimate. Being fully aware of the importance of integrity, as well as of its feeble nature, modern states develop various mechanisms for its preservation, among which the integrity test has a significant place.

Keywords

• integrity
• integrity test
• police
• police officers
• sector for internal control