Occupational Stress of Police

The occupational stress of police studied on 120 police constables who were randomly selected from 22 police stations of Dharwad taluk of Karnataka in the year 2015. Occupational stress scale developed by Srivastav and Sing, 1984, socio-economic status scale by Agarwal et al., 2005 and self structured questionnaire to collect auxiliary information were used for data collection. Results revealed that 58.33 per cent of police had moderate level of occupational stress while 35 per cent had high and only 6.67 per cent had low level of occupational stress. About 60 per cent of men and 56.67 per cent of women had moderate level where as 33.3 per cent of men and 36.67 per cent of women were in high and only 10 per cent of men and 3.33 per cent of women were in low level of occupational stress. Majority of rural and urban police had moderate occupational stress (56.67% and 60%) followed by high (38.33% and 31.67%) and low levels of occupational stress. Occupational stress was significantly and positively related to duty period and distance from residence to work place pointed out that higher the duty period and greater the distance from residence to work place higher was the occupational stress.