Relationship between communication skills of police executive staff and citizen participation in crime prevention

Participation is a purposeful action that takes place in the interactive process between the actor and his social environment in order to achieve specific and predefined goals. Paying attention to the components affecting citizen participation that lead to increasing the performance of the organization, including strengthening the communication skills of employees, is a basic necessity. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between communication skills of police executives and citizen participation in crime prevention.

The present study method is quantitative in terms of data, applied in terms of objectives and correlational in terms of the nature of the study. This research was conducted in 1399 in the field of police stations in the west of Tehran. The statistical population of the present study consists of all clients over 20 years of age to the social deputies of the second police stations of Tehran, which are based on stratified sampling and then simple random sampling method and formula for determining the sample size. , 176 people were selected as the sample.

From the point of view of the sample population, there is a significant relationship between the dimensions of communication skills of police executive staff and citizen participation. Therefore, by strengthening communication skills in police stations, checkpoints and police executive units, the level of public participation in decision-making and support for police executive programs can be increased.