In terms of the autoethnography this chapter represents the late period in the aetiology or journey of my involvement with the Klockars scale and scenario survey method. It begins to bring the research up to date by re-analysing and reporting on a study published in 2020 with one of the other contributors, Steve Conway. It examines attitudes towards police ethics and integrity using the responses of police officers and support staff to some ethical dilemmas via an online questionnaire. The aim of the study was to explore potential connections between respondents’ beliefs about the seriousness or type of misdemeanour and their likelihood of reporting the behaviour. Using a series of scenarios, we explore professional ethics and integrity by analysing the evidence from our survey of around 1,500 police officers, police community support officers (PCSOs) and police support staff. Throughout, we aim to show which of the scenarios were considered the most ‘serious’, which are more likely to be reported, and offer some suggestions as to why the ‘blue code’ is significant. It is the first of two standalone chapters, one of which has already been published and is reproduced in an adapted from here by kind permission of the journal. The second part of the pair of chapters—Chapter 6 which follows next—contains data not previously published. It analyses the of qualitative data that was collected at the same time as the data for this largely quantitative Chapter for this present chapter, but due to various constraints remained unpublished until now.

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Survey Overview and Quantitative Data Analysis

  • Louise Westmarland

摘要

In terms of the autoethnography this chapter represents the late period in the aetiology or journey of my involvement with the Klockars scale and scenario survey method. It begins to bring the research up to date by re-analysing and reporting on a study published in 2020 with one of the other contributors, Steve Conway. It examines attitudes towards police ethics and integrity using the responses of police officers and support staff to some ethical dilemmas via an online questionnaire. The aim of the study was to explore potential connections between respondents’ beliefs about the seriousness or type of misdemeanour and their likelihood of reporting the behaviour. Using a series of scenarios, we explore professional ethics and integrity by analysing the evidence from our survey of around 1,500 police officers, police community support officers (PCSOs) and police support staff. Throughout, we aim to show which of the scenarios were considered the most ‘serious’, which are more likely to be reported, and offer some suggestions as to why the ‘blue code’ is significant. It is the first of two standalone chapters, one of which has already been published and is reproduced in an adapted from here by kind permission of the journal. The second part of the pair of chapters—Chapter 6 which follows next—contains data not previously published. It analyses the of qualitative data that was collected at the same time as the data for this largely quantitative Chapter for this present chapter, but due to various constraints remained unpublished until now.