Abstract
Nowadays, the Police have a significant impact on the security and public order in Poland having actually become a litmus test of how the authorities approach the general public. Furthermore, Polish society is developing the characteristics of risk society and information society, which stimulates a special interest of citizens and the mass media in all the activities of uniformed institutions. Their attitude to current political events is often assessed and their effectiveness criticized. Therefore, the impact of contemporary modernization processes on the Police, including feminization, is a worthwhile task. For this purpose, extremely useful have been research methods, such as case studies, comparative analysis and system analysis.
Highlights
Feminization in the area of security has already transformed “how we see war and conflict, how we study them, report them, theorize them, and observe them” (Sjolberg, 2014: 170–171)
It was possible to achieve the approval levels of Western countries, such as Germany, Switzerland or Austria, while still remaining considerably behind Finland. It is worth considering the impact of the COVID-19 threat on this result, including the initial public uncertainty, and whether the sanitary and epidemiological restrictions applied in Poland would translate into the results of assessments of a police force which was monitoring citizens’ compliance with the restrictions
The analysis of police operations in other European countries showed that policewomen were better than policemen in working with victims of violence against women, primarily in the area of sexual crimes
Summary
Polish society has been undergoing radical changes, ranging from the political system and economy, to the evolution of awareness. The public sector is worth examining, which remains sensitive to political expectations, becoming a veritable testing ground for new ideas This dependence can be seen especially in the modernization process of uniformed services (including the police), which are forced to use parities on the one hand, but on the other are still required, or even obliged by society, to act effectively, regardless of conditions. Poles demand the same security standards as those applied in Western Europe and the United States The combination of these two phenomena (risk society and information society) gives rise to the need for comprehensive risk minimization, or the demand to search for potential and real threats in every area of life in order to identify and eliminate them. It is worth considering the impact of the COVID-19 threat on this result, including the initial public uncertainty (in February/March), and whether the sanitary and epidemiological restrictions applied in Poland would translate into the results of assessments of a police force which was monitoring citizens’ compliance with the restrictions (and imposing penalties)
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