Examining the Factors Leading to Sluggishness and Neglect in Fulfilling Legal Duties and Presentation of Preventive Solutions

This study aims to identify the most important factors in and conditions for emergence and formation of sluggishness and neglect as disciplinary violations among the police personnel. In order to gather the necessary data, the descriptive – survey method was adopted in the study and copies of the questionnaire developed were distributed among 380 police personnel at five provinces, namely, West Azerbaijan, Hormozgan, Khorasan Razavi, Yazd and Guilan, which were selected based on the cluster sampling method and geographical distribution. Results suggest that there is a significant relation between the variables of socioeconomic status, job security, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, relative deprivation, virtue and the amount of the staff's violation, sluggishness and neglect in performing duties.