The Stress of an Investigator in the Metropolitan Police Force1

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1. to study the level of stress in the work of the officers in the Metropolitan Police Division 1 and 2. to compare with the personal stress of officers in the Metropolitan Police Division 1. In this research, quantitative research consists of 5 aspects: Physical, Mental, Social, Economic and Working. The researcher conducted the research by using questionnaires with the investigative officers under the Metropolitan Police Division 1, consisting of 132 people by means of frequency and percentage, average and standard deviation (S.D.) analyzed by t-test, comparison of mean values for two samples (t-test independent), One-way ANOVA, data analysis using social science software packages.

The results of the research revealed that;

1. The level of work stress of the investigators under the Metropolitan Police Division 1 was at a moderate level (= 3.43, SD = 0.36). (= 3.93, SD = 0.52), followed by economy (= 3.77, SD = 0.55) and physical health (= 3.42, SD = 0.47)


2. Comparison of personal factors and stress of the investigative officers under the Metropolitan Police Division 1, the study of the classification of personal factors by gender, duration of work Average monthly income found that the variance of the group is not different. When classified by personal factors according to age, education level, position, it was found that the variance of the samples were significantly different at the level of 0.5