Strategic Patterns of Ways to Deepen the Culture of Self-protection in the Police

Reducing or curbing the crimes and violations in the organization through self-protection measures is a preventive factor that will be among the most effective and the least costly methods of monitoring and controlling crimes and violations. Self-protection leads to the excellence of employees and the promotion of self-protection and institutionalization of its culture in the organization is considered to be an effective and reliable factor in preventing crimes and violations. In security organizations, specifically in the law enforcement, knowing the weakness of external and traditional control systems in preventing the deviation of goals, the belief in the strong effectiveness of internal control (or self-protection) to prevent security failures has received much attention. Due to the sensitivity of its mission, the law enforcement needs to take care of and maintain its organization more than any other institutions and organizations. Therefore, creating, deepening, institutionalizing and promoting the culture of self-control and self-protection in NAJA (the police force of Islamic republic of Iran) is the most significant and the most principal method of preserving and protecting human and organizational resources. Thus the purpose of compiling this paper is to present a strategic pattern in explaining the methods of deepening and institutionalizing the culture of self-protection in the police organization.

the present paper has been written using the library and documentary method and using upstream documents, elites' statements, valid scientific and experimental sources and using the content analysis method. Therefore, thanks to the paper being qualitative, the paper is void of any statistical samples, but the statistical population of the elite group at the level of senior law enforcement officials includes 14 people have been selected for in-depth interview in order to discover and explain various aspects.

at the end of his research, the researcher has explained the methods of deepening and institutionalizing the culture of self-protection based on effective components in its two main dimensions, namely the belief dimension and the theoretical dimension.