Police job engagement and public perception of crime

Abstract

This study examined the level of police job engagement, the public's perception of crime, and the significance of the link between these variables. It also identified the police job engagement domain that had the greatest influence on the public's perspective of crime. The respondents of the study were 339 individuals from Koronadal City. These were individuals who had contact with the Philippine National Police (PNP), either as complainants, persons who had been arrested previously, people who had been apprehended by the PNP, or individuals who had been questioned by police. The research methods employed in the study were descriptive and correlational. To gauge how committed police officers are to their work and how seriously the public takes crime, surveys were given out. The study's findings show that both public perception of crime and police job engagement were quite high. Additionally, there was a significant correlation between police job engagement and public perception of crime, with cognitive engagement having the strongest impact among the various aspects of police job engagement.