Identifying the Professional Virtues of the Police and its Origins from the Point of View of the Supreme Leader

Promoting professional virtues in police forces with respect to critical and complex missions and activities that they have on ensuring order and security and protecting the rights of citizens can guarantee the general public's confidence in them. Although there may be various ways and means to promote professional virtues that are implemented in accordance with regulations and guidelines, this study examines the views of the Supreme Leader, as the general command of all the forces, who is cognizant of the affairs of the society, and his views can be a way forward for the officials of the country. The present research sought to answer the following question: what are the professional virtues of the police and their origins from the point of view of the Supreme Leader? This research is of a qualitative type, which has been conducted using qualitative content analysis, written sources, and lectures summoned by the Supreme Leader (from 1368 to 1397) among the commanders and managers of the armed forces. To evaluate the validity of the factors taken into account by the author, the results were presented to the experts in a tabular format and, after making the reforms in the second round, all agreed with the components.Findings and The qualitative analysis of the data of this study began with 224 statements related to the professional virtues of the police staff. These statements were coded and 189 initial codes were identified. These codes were categorized into 15 code axes and finally placed in three groups of insights and beliefs, behavior and conduct, and ethical attitudes. The selected code of insight and beliefs in this regard was the most frequent subject and ethical and behavioral attitudes were in the next levels.