Police Trust Measure in Philippines

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject Sociology - Law, Delinquency, Abnormal Behavior, University of Mindanao (Research and Publication), course: police research, language: English, abstract: This study measured public trust on the police in Davao Region, Philippines. There are 11 dimensions of trust used in this survey including devotion to duty, justice, service orientation, loyalty, discipline, valor, professionalism, perseverance, morality, humility, and honesty. Most trusted police office is the DOcPPO (Davao Occidental Provincial Police Office), while DCPO (Davao City Police Office) comes in near second. The slack in trust is DSPPO (Davao del Sur Police Office) and DNPPO (Davao del Norte Police Office). Artificial Neural technique reveals that the devotion to duty, justice and humility, honesty and service orientation are pivots of trust. Regression technique shows males having higher trust than females, older ones than the young ones. Finally, a single instance of inadequate police response will confirm the public expectation of poor public service. Therefore contingent on the part of the police to observe professionalism and service orientation in responding to police calls and at any point of public service, there should never be an insinuation for monetary support in exchange for police response.