Abstract
The aim of this study is to develop and test the factorial validity of a questionnaire about police officer’s transformational leadership on the ground. Based on Bass’s (1985) transactional/transformational leadership model, Police Officers Transformational Leadership Scale is composed of 33 items rated on a Likert-type scale from (1) Completely disagree to (6) Completely agree. Respondents were 167 police officers from a large French Canadian police organization and two small police corps. The results show that a model structure with two second-order dimensions (transactional and transformational leadership), consistent with Bass’s theory (1985), provided a good fit to the data. The results suggest that this questionnaire is well suited for describing the transformational leadership of police officers.
Highlights
Policing has changed over the last 30 years
Interviews were performed with two police officers who are sergeants in two French Canadian police corps and an executive from the École Nationale de Police du Québec (Québec National Police School)
The results show that a model structure with two second-order dimensions, consistent with
Summary
It has changed from a reactive military model to a more proactive model of community policing [1] In such a model, police aim at problem solving instead of crime elucidation and are more concerned with citizens’ specific problems and concerns [2]. Community police officers’ work includes resolving conflicts, helping victims, preventing accidents, solving problems, and reducing fear as well as reducing crime [7, 8]. These behaviors call for police officers’ leadership
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