Ethical dimension of police profession

Abstract

Professional morality is created in the police profession since its performance is firmly organized. Also, it is a profession that is extremely im- portant for users, and whose members can learn very important and sensitive information whose disclosure could harm users. What will the morality be in this case depends on many factors, especially: moral relations in the wider so- ciety, goals and tasks of the police in a given society, specific conditions of life and work, the very practice of police organizations, the personal qualities of individual officer. In this profession moral codes are created which regulate in detail not only relations to the profession and its conduct, but relationships with customers, and also the behavior of police officers in their private life, or outside the profession. The main purpose of these codes is not to create morality (which is uncontrolled, spontaneous and relatively long process), but, above all, in its clear and precise presentation that contributes to the formulation of the proper performance of duties and use of legal powers.