'n Vergelyking van polisiekultuurhoudings van mans en vrouens in die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens oor 'n tien jaar tydperk.
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2016-10
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Scientific Electronic Library Online
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A comparison of police culture attitudes of men and women in the South African Police Service
over a ten year period
Contemporary ethnographers (Cockcroft 2013; O’Neill, Marks & Singh 2007; Sklansky 2005)
argue that new developments in policing have changed the police, and that traditional
understanding of police culture, as a consequence, is no longer relevant. More specifically, these
researchers imply that the South African Police Service (SAPS) has changed many of the traits
of police culture with regards to cynicism of and isolation from the public. The research paper
attempts to contribute to this narrative by determining whether indicators evincing attitudes of
police culture themes of solidarity, isolation and cynicism amongst South African Police Service
(SAPS) officials are gender neutral as well as showing a change over a ten (10) year period
(January 2005 – June 2014). By making use of the 30-item police culture themes questionnaire,
designed by Steyn (2005), the study established that South African Police Service (SAPS) cadets
who commenced their basic training at the six (6) basic training institutes in South Africa (Pretoria,
Chatsworth, Oudtshoorn, Graaff-Reinet, Phillippi and Bisho) in January 2005, entered the
organisation with predispositions in furtherance of police culture themes of solidarity, isolation
and cynicism. The period of “college/academy training” (January 2005 – June 2006) did not
significantly counteract these tendencies, neither did the subsequent “field training” (July 2005
– December 2005). Nine (9) years on, and these attitudes intensified to an overall average of
seventy percent (69.85%). The study further found that for the duration of the project (10 years),
female trainees and their ensuing conversion to fully-fledged police officials had mostly stronger
values exhibiting police culture solidarity, police culture isolation and police culture cynicism,
compared to their male counterparts.
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STEYN J. (2016). 'n Vergelyking van polisiekultuurhoudings van mans en vrouens in die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens oor 'n tien jaar tydperk. Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe. 56, 608-626.