Facrors influencing structural violence against female police officers in Zambia police service: a case study of Monze police station.
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Date
2024-01
Authors
Sianga Godfrey, Daka Harrison, Mulenga – Hagane Lydia Mukuka, Kalimaposo Kalisto and Mundando Janet.
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Global Scienfic Journals
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The purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing structural violence against women in Zambia police taking particular interest Monze police station. The study endevoured to achieve the two (2) objectives namely; to establish factors behind structural violence against women in the police service the at Monze Police station and; to examine measures to address the causes of structural violence in the police service at Monze police station. In this study, a qualitative
descriptive research design was used. The study population was drawn from among police officers based at Monze police station. Monze police station has a total population of sixty (60) police officers. Among these 35 (59%) are male officers while 25 (41%) are female officers. In this study, purposive sampling technique was used to identify respondents from the targeted population. Data was collected until a saturation point was reached. 30 in-depth interviews were
conducted on a one on one in this study with police officers drawn from Monze Police station both males and females. The data was analyzed thematically. Thematic approach was used where data was grouped according to common themes and patterns as well as differences in the participants’ responses. Thematic analysis was done after verbatim transcription of the interviews. It study revealed that structural violence against female officers in the Zambia police service has been in existence for a long time now. This has been necessitated by gender inequality which exist between men and women in most Zambian communities. Others include culture and belief that women are not ready to take risks and do not work throughout the month or year. Measures to address these from the study were found to come up with steps such as empower women, support community level transformations of social norms and practices, formulate laws and policies that will deal with the inequality between men and women and increase knowledge and sensitizations on gender equality and equity. The study recommended that measures must be taken to ensure that African cultural practices must have no influence in the Zambia police service administration and that
Laws and Policies must be established to support the current pieces of legislature to address structural violence against female police officers in Zambia police service.
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