Corruption in Police: A Phenomenological Approach on its Nature and Control

Police is a social organization that along with its important duty which is affording discipline and security, presents various services to the citizens. Because of expressive nature of the missions of this organization, it’s always evaluated by society. Occurring some malfunctions, misbehaviors, and different cases of corruption on the side of some police personnel has led to this fact that people generalize it to the whole organization and even the executive system of the country. The present article uses qualitative approach and analyze the phenomenon of corruption among police staff by means of phenomenological method. This article referring to theories of some theorists such as Roebark and Barker, Punch, Syed and Bruce and others analyzes corruption typology, macro and micro corruption, theory of few apples and so on. The results show that some factors such as social and economic conditions of society, taste-relational selection and recruitment far from terms and conditions, unbalance between salary and social welfare, commitment to the codes of silence, lack of true supervision are influential in reinforcement of corruption in police organization. Finally, the approaches necessary to combat corruption in the organization of police go around concepts such as true supervision over recruitment, education and supervision, using stick and carrot approach, strong navigation and management and involving society.