Procedures for the Enforcement of Disciplinary Measures on Police Officers: An Analytical Study

Abstract

The issue of imposing disciplinary punishment on a public servant is one of the issues regulated by the rules of the public service, in order to correct the behavior of the offending employee and prevent them from deviating from their job duties, as well as to achieve the public interest by regulating the functioning of public facilities. The police apparatus is entrusted with a set of tasks entrusted to this element in order to achieve the objectives sought by that body, and although the personnel of the police profession hold the status of public servants, the nature of their work requires that they be subject to their own legal system, and abide by the duties and tasks entrusted to them. The majority of legislation in countries has accepted the principle of the legality of disciplinary sanctions, as it has defined the penalties imposed on employees of the security facility exclusively, and these penalties came from the lowest to the highest according to the severity of the violation through a disciplinary system. This is not considered an arbitration privilege on the part of the administration, but rather a set of principles whose provisions are regulated by law, as there are procedures followed by the competent authority to impose disciplinary punishment on police personnel, and this authority is the "Discipline Order".