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Police integrity in Australia
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Police integrity in Australia

L E Porter, Timothy Prenzler and K Hine
Measuring Police Integrity across the world, pp.67-98
Springer New York LLC
2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2279-6_3
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Abstract

Criminology Australia code of silence discipline police integrity survey
This chapter reports the results of an Australian survey of police using the international ethical climate questionnaires developed by Klockars et al. Two major police departments distributed the questionnaires to their officers on condition of anonymity. The findings from the survey-conducted in 2013-were largely positive. On the whole, respondents understood the serious nature of different types of ethics violations and expressed willingness to report violations, although willingness to report was correlated with degrees of perceived seriousness. As with the results of similar surveys, respondents tended to have a lower view of the integrity of colleagues compared to their own position. A key finding was that seriousness ratings and willingness to report tended to increase with rank. This informed the main policy implication: that the ethical perspectives adopted by more senior police need to be transmitted more widely across police ranks.

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