Sociological Explanation of the Relationship between Communityoriented Police’s Performance and a security Feeling

The security feeling is some sort of sociological issue and some sort of social obligation that goes beyond individual issues, but acts as a structural and collective element. Although security/insecurity feeling, is an individual issue, it is a reflection of collective forces or a representation of environmental and social issues, and accordingly it is in relation with the structure, social contexts, institutions and organizations of the social system, especially the performance of law enforcement agencies (police, etc.) In general, the present study is aimed to investigate and explain the impact of community-oriented police performance on citizens' security feeling.

The present research is of survey type, and in terms of applied aim and extent of generalization, has been implemented extensively. To ensure the validity of the questionnaire and to measure the reliability of the scales content validity and structural validity, factor analysis technique and, Cronbach's alpha coefficient have been used. The statistical population of the study was citizens living in the east of Tehran province ranging from 15 to 64; and the number of samples was 384 and were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method.

The results of the statistical indices indicate that significant relationship, in general, the level of population security of the under study population is of moderate level. The results of the Pearson test indicates that  there is significant relationship  between components of community-oriented police(contribution-orientation, trust building, supporting vulnerable  groups, adherence to moral and professional values, public satisfaction from police performance, crime prevention, police performance in dealing with crime, fear of crime, public education and respect for civil rights) and citizens' security feeling. The results of regression analysis and path analysis indicate that %56 of the societal security feeling variance has been explained and given the significance of Fisher statistic; it can be argued that the sum of the mentioned independent variables has had a significant impact factor on the path mode