Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Received: 1 April 2020
Accepted: 1 May 2020
UDK: 351.74:342.7
Pages: 161-179
doi: doi.org/10.47152/rkkp.58.1.2.9
The police represents one of the public services in charge of maintaining law and public order. Police officers can use force and deny and restrict some of the fundamental rights and freedoms to citizens. For this reason, the integrity of the police as well as its officers is one of the most importatnt theoretical and practical issues in police work. The aim of this paper is to present the basic concepts, debates and dilemmas related to integrity of the police as a public organization. This entails, first of all, an outline of the main definitions and explanations of the phenomenon of police integrity, then an overview of the most notable typologies of violations of police integrity, as well as some of the factors that explain the existence of violations of police integrity.
KEY WORDS: police / police officers / police integrity / violations of police integrity / police corruption.
