Investigating the Impact of Police Authority on the security feeling among Ravansar Citizens

Existence of security in every society requires measures to be taken by bodies such as police forces, which are responsible for establishing public safety and well-being across the community. The police force is tasked with dealing with anything that disrupts this security and collective peace. Meanwhile, the police force authority to protect citizens is among the most important and deterrent factors in compromising the citizens' security. The present study, which aims to investigate the impact of police authority on the security feeling among Ravansar's citizens, is a practical study in terms of purpose. The study is based on various theories such as Boozan and Weaver theory in measuring and analyzing the security feeling and Weber's view on authority, as a theoretical framework of research and the basis of hypotheses.

The method used in this research is field survey using survey technique, and questionnaire is the tool used for data collection. The statistical population of this study is 15+people in Ravansar in 2016. Based on Cochran's formula, 384 people were selected from among 57,500 people. The data collection tool is a self-made questionnaire. The police authority was measured in three dimensions using 26 items, and security feeling was measured using 20 items on the Likert scale. SPSS was used to analyze the data. Formal validity was used to estimate validity. To estimate reliability, Cronbach's alpha and research hypotheses were used benefitting from Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple regressions was used to measure the research model.

The results of multiple regression show that the two components of police authority level (legal-rational authority and traditional authority) have entered the regression equation and a total of 0.46 of the variable changes explain the citizens' security feeling. It can be argued that given the enhancement of police rational authority and traditional authority; we are to witness improvement in the citizens' security leve