Quality of Work Life of Police Constables with special reference to Wellness

Abstract

The police personnel happen to be the most visible representatives of thegovernment. In an hour of need, danger, or any crisis, people find police to be themost dependable person.The role of police constables is valuable. Besides their assigned dutiespolice constables contribute in disaster management, VVIP duties, guard duties andescort duties, serving of summons and warrants as well as clerical work. They rarelygets holidays and thewelfare facilities they are getting are insufficient. The researcher has focused only on constable's rank of police personnel. However, police constables are the ones who directly come in contactwith the people in the society.The issues related tohousing facilities and medical facilities problems have been effectivelyexplored .The sample constituted of 630 police constables within the range of five to fourteenyears of service working at police stations under Pune zone. Thus, purposive samplingtechnique was used for data collection. The word wellness covers five areas 1. Physical 2. Welfare facilities 3. Spirituality 4.Economic Condition 5. Emotional .The researcher found that police department provides training programmes on stressmanagement, communication skills, team building and attitudinal change inadequately.