Abstract
This study sought to investigate the influence of police training programmes on police officers participation in gender based violence prevention in Uganda. The investigation was provoked by the reportedly deteriorating performance of police officers in areas of gender based violence prevention despite of government’s effort to transform Uganda to a middle income country by 2040.The specific areas studied were the influence of police training on their participation in enforcement of laws related to gender based violence prevention, creating awareness on gender based violence prevention to the community and police officers efforts to prevent gender based violence. The study took an interpretive philosophical paradigm and was under pined by the Social learning theory and the Expectancy theory of Motivation. Data was collected using questionnaires, interviews, Focused Group Discussions, participant observation and documentary analysis. A total of 412 police officers and 80 non police officers participated in the study. Quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS by use of descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, Regression analysis and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) while qualitative data was analyzed using thematic analysis by use of transcription, coding and themes development. The study findings showed a strong positive relationship between training programmes and participation in gender based violence prevention, (r = 0.530, p = 0.000, n = 412). It further showed that police training programmes are predictors of police officers participation in gender based violence prevention, pv < 0.050 (= 0.000). The relationship is statistically significant at 95 % confidence level. The researcher concluded that police training programmes influence police officers participation in gender based violence prevention in Uganda. Thus it was recommended that police management promote community awareness on gender based violence prevention by allocating enough funds to standardize training and other activities related to gender based violence prevention in Uganda. Keywords : Police Training Programmes Gender Based Violence Prevention. DOI : 10.7176/RHSS/9-20-05 Publication date :October 31 st 2019
Highlights
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDYThis study sought to find out how police training programmes influence police officers’ participation in gender based violence prevention in Uganda
In this study police training programmes means an inventory of activities, content and/or methods implemented to achieve police training objectives, organized in a logical sequence over a specified period of time. while Gender based violence prevention (GBVP) means stopping any harmful act that is perpetrated against a person’s will basing on biological, sex, gender identity or perceived adherence to socially defined norms of masculinity and femininity, including acts, threats, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty whether occurring in public or private life in form of economic, physical, sexual or emotional from happening
It was guided by the question which stated that: How do police training programmes influence police officers participation in gender based violence prevention in Uganda?
Summary
Table 3. 1 shows that the study had a response rate of 89.5 % which means that the study had a reasonable response rate. The respondents’ demographic characteristics of members of public in terms of gender, age, highest standard of education attained and marital status were sought This was done in the quest to establish whether these characteristics of the respondents had an impact on the data they provided to this study about the police participation in GBVP in Uganda. Data was collected from different age categories of the members of public This implies that the study findings can be generalized to represent the views of the public at large about police participation in GBVP in Uganda. Respondents with Primary, “O” Level (secondary school level of education) or Post graduate levels of education were of negligible numbers This means that the majority of respondents understood issues related to PTPs and police officers participation in GBVP and are trainable as they had attained a reasonable level of education. The respondents were asked about their highest standard of education to ascertain whether this had an impact on their knowledge about the police participation in GBVP in Uganda and results are presented in the figure
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