Opinions and Evaluations of General Public as a Criteria of Evaluation of Success of Police

Abstract

In the theoretical part of the paper authors talk about police organizations, goals of police organizations, success of police organizations, and public opinion of police work as a criteria of police effectives. In the empirical part of the paper authors studied opinions and evaluations towards the work of police officers in the area of Krško police district and Novo Mesto police district by 128 residents. More specifically they have studied how residents evaluate cooperation with police, how they evaluate their work and their interpersonal competences. Authors determine that citizens evaluate with the highest grade (3,18) interpersonal competents of police officers, they evaluate fairly good (3,14) police officers work, but they are a little less satisfied with police officers procedures (2,98) and with cooperation with police officers (2,80). Key words: police, effectiveness, public, community policing.