Few studies have investigated the police cadet graduates (PCG) while
they have worked as the mainstream police officers in South Korea for
more than sixty years. This research was an attempt to reveal the
evaluation of the police officers on the PCG based on a survey of the
261 police sergeants. In order to compare the result with the previous
study on the police university graduates (PUG) which recently received
much of the attention from the researchers, I employed almost the same
survey instrument and sample that was used in the previous study.
It was found that police sergeants' evaluations on PCG were generally
bad, especially compared with those on the PUG. It was also found that
respondents thought PCG have caused numerous problems: they do not
mix well with other police officers and were privileged to become
lieutenants. On the other hand, respondents believed that they did not
significantly contribute to the police organization. As a result, more
than half of the respondents said that PCG were not essential to the
development of the police and therefore should be reduced or even
abolished. It was suggested that future research should investigate the
reason for the negative assessment and find a way to relieve the
trouble