Police Officers’ Motives for their duty performance under Chiang Khwan Police Station, Chiang Khwan District, Roi Et

Abstract

                  The purposes of this thematic paper were to: 1) study police officers’ motives for their duty performance under Chiang Khwan police station, Chiang Khwan district, Roi Et province 2) compare the motivation of the police officers whose ranks, years in service, and educational backgrounds are different 3) gather suggestions in promoting police officers’ motives for their duty performance under Chiang Khwan police station, Chiang Khwan district, Roi Et province. The group of samples, designed by using R.V. Krejcie and D.W. Morgan table as reference, comprised 64 police officers in Chiang Khwan police station, Chiang Khwan district, Roi Et province. The twenty five different items, found on the five-rate-scale questionnaire, with the reliability at .93 was utilized as an instrument. The data was computed and analyzed by using percentages, means, and standard deviation, t-test and F-test (One Way ANOVA).

                  The results reported that 1) The police officers’ motives for their duty performance under Chiang Khwan police station, Chiang Khwan district, Roi Et province were at high level in overall aspect. In a determined individual aspect, four different aspects were at high level and one aspect was at medium level. Those could be sorted in descending order as follows; achievement, recognition, responsibility, job specification, and career path. 2) The finding of comparison showed that, despite of the variety of ranks, years in service, and educational backgrounds, there was no difference signified to the police officers’ motives for their duty performance under Chiang Khwan police station, Chiang Khwan district, Roi Et province in both individual and overall aspects. 3) The top-three-suggestions in promoting police officers’ motives for their duty performance, ranked from most to least, were as follows; the further study in higher level should be supported, the outstanding works should be publically and occasionally announced, and the subordinates’ point of views due to their duty performance should be granted.