Police Force Bias

Regardless of the fact that both the Police College and Police Force have been striving to promote in its formal structure, this study shows that informal channels of bias were still largely affected by perceptions and influence cadets’ training the College or their duties in the Police Force. It is investigated that the Police College is highly gender-segregated, which female and male cadets merely know each other and have minimal interactions. We can tell little effort was paid to challenge and debunk the common stereotypes against female and male in the Police College, hence such unfavourable social conceptions were brought from the external to the inner and continues to impact the culture in the Police Force.
The frequent contact among parties has found to be positively correlate out-group understanding and the reduction of biased prejudices (Ata, Bastian & Lusher, 2009; Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006). This study believes the limited social contact between female and male cadets serves as the foremost reason why the Police College failed to demystify biases and underpin the gender-segregated mind-set in the Police Force. As Field (2003) explains, intimacy,
This can affect the validity of this study since interviewees’ responses could be subjected to factors such as personal varieties and those particular tutors, colleagues or supervisors they. Therefore, results of this study cannot be generalized to represent the whole picture. However, this study has casted insights for subsequent research possibilities such as longitudinal study that tracks the changes of gender perceptions before and after the training in Police College or cohort study that investigates the differences of perceptions among officers admitted in different time period or with different