Police ethics and professional conduct standards

Police Ethics

The research plan as outlined in the previous section is well on course and the outlined steps are relevant to the main objective of the research. There are however several challenges that are already being experienced. One of them is at section 1 where the types of sources to be used are to be identified. The difficulty is in classifying some sources like the police themselves among the sources since it may turn out at the data collection stage that the police may restrict the amount information they can give or even refuse to give information hence leaving a gap. This also may present the alteration in terms of the time schedule particularly in pursuit of primary sources of information since the few police authorities that have indicated interest in helping with crucial information often have to give a time frame for the interview and official appointment which eats into the allocated time within the plan yet this has to be adhered to in order to get reliable information.

In section 3 there is also an apparent challenge since in writing the first draft there will be need for reliable sources of information as shall have been outlined in the annotation there before, however, the changing shape and nature of ethics taking into account the human behavior needs very recent literature. Unfortunately that is not the case taking into account the available literature most of which are three years old and earlier than that. This may not accurately reflect the accurate contemporary trends in ethics among the police since a lot changes in line with globalization and change in technology within the sphere of human behavior in general, and police ethics in specific.