The Effect of Civil Liability Arising from the Actions of Police Chiefs and their Subordinates on Enforcement Official's Tasks

The roles and missions of police personnel as enforcement officials of justice are in a way that the probability of any loss arising from their actions are very possible.On this basis, due to these actions, the adverse outcomes ranging from death, injury and property loss are triggered in all years that consequently lead to the legal proceedings against police personnel. In many cases law enforcement agencies or employees are convicted to pay compensations to persons aggrieved. Therefore, this study, referring to different legal literature and studying available notions, aims at explaining the civil liability arising from the act of police chiefs and their subordinates and the impact of these responsibilities on the enforcement officials’ tasks. The research method was library studying and survey method and the type of the research is implicational. The data collection tools are note taking from literature and a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population was all of the police stations’ chiefs of (Tehran’s police chief) in 2011. The validity of the research was confirmed by the experts and scholars and its reliability was calculated and confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (73%). The obtained data from questionnaire were analyzed using SPSS software. Based on the findings of the research, measures of civil liability arising from the act of shooting, illegal entry to privacy and failure to perform duties of court sentences have the most effect on the enforcement officials’ tasks. Therefore, it has been suggested that certain rules should be passed by legislatures in order to expand the government’s responsibility for theperformance of police personnel. In addition, a training course entitled as “civil liability of police” should be included in the curriculum of university so that before attending the police stations the personnel would be familiar with civil liability, especially liabilities arising from 3 aforementioned indices.