Investigating the Impact of Police Support on Female Students' Security Feeling (Case study: Secondary School Students in Sari)

Security is one of the most important needs for the stability of a society, and paves the ground for its growth and development. The police performance in various ways can be effective in maintaining security feeling. The present study was aimed at investigating the impact of police support on female students' security feeling studying in Sari schools.

The research is of survey type, and of applied type in terms of purpose. According to the statistics of the Education Department of Sari, the statistical population includes 9040 female high school students studying in Sari. The sample size was 386persons who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling, based on Cochran's formula. A questionnaire was used for collecting data. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS and Pearson t-test analysis and regression.

The analytical findings of the study indicate that the three variables of police performance (with Pearson coefficient 0.68), variable of trust in police (Pearson coefficient 0.58) and police social support variable (Pearson coefficient 0.56) have a positive and significant relationship with the female students’ security feeling. Also, the presence of police around school at the time female students enter and leave school (with the above three constituents) has managed to explain (54%) more than half of the security feeling of female students.