Discussion on the Practical Use of Police Technology R&D: Focusing on the Perception of Technology by Field Police Officers

Abstract

This study is a pre-study for the survey on the demand for commercialization of police technology, and aims to grasp the perception of the current technology of field police officers. Specifically, the current status, utilization, satisfaction, problem, improvement direction, and technology and equipment desired to be introduced by field police officers under the classification system for each technology target were analyzed. As for the analysis data, preliminary survey data of the demand survey for the 「2022 Police Technology Commercialization Project and FGI data of 15 on-site police officers were used. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the holding status was held by the affiliated functions/institution from at least 4.0% to a maximum of 55.2% by the middle classification of security science and technology. It was confirmed that the average score of utilization and satisfaction were higher than 5points in all middle categories (7point scale). However, in the case of introduction recognition, a relatively low number was reported, with a minimum of 3.2% to a maximum of 15.5% for each division. In this study, policy suggestions for the direction of commercialization of police technology were presented through these results and opinions of field police officers derived from FGI.