Subjective evaluation of cooperation between members of the Police of the Czech Republic and social services

The cooperation between the Police of the Czech Republic and social services is a very important activity from the point of view of psychosocial impacts on clients and also for the protection of clients´ health and life. The aim of the thesis is to examine the mutual cooperation between the Police of the Czech Republic and the social services. Another focus of the work is to find out how the cooperation is with social services perceived by the members of the Police of the Czech Republic and whether the shares of cooperation with individual social services are distributed evenly. The thesis also deals with finding out whether the evaluation of the cooperation with the social services is related to the age of members of the Police of the Czech Republic and their service classification. Quantitative research strategies as well as a questioning method and a self-questionnaire technique are used to achieve the goal; the questionnaire uses closed questions with the possibility of choosing specific items in the answers and semi-closed questions, which, in addition, allow supplementing the offered answer variants. In total 314 respondents were asked, of which 105 females, 208 males and 1 respondent indicated a different type of gender identity. Because the questionnaire was intended for the police officers within the South Bohemian Region, I have decided to choose a questionnaire survey in electronic form. Bar graphs with absolute and relative frequencies were created for all questionnaire questions. The following statistical methods were used for statistical inference: confidence interval for relative frequency calculated using the Clopper-Pearson method, independence test based on Spearman's correlation coefficient, Kruskal-Wallis test, Cochran's Q test and McNemar's test. Calculations were performed using the TIBCO STATISTICA program, the significance level was 5%. In the discussion, the research results are summarized and compared with the literature that deals with the cooperation between the police forces and social services. In the conclusion of the thesis there is stated what is the possible contribution of this diploma thesis, including a possible solution, for example in the form of improving cooperation between the Police of the Czech Republic and social services