Stress factors in Turkish police and the effects of stress over the work satisfaction, individual productivity and the organizational devotion of Turkish police

In this age, it is almost impossible to think the social life, exclusively the complicated organizations purified from the stress. Many of the studies showed that police is one of the most stressful job type facing the organizational stress of all those job branches.In this study, the stress factors for the police officers and the effects of the stress over them were examined. In the first part of the study, stress and the related concepts, types, causes, and the sources of stress involved in the stress management were mentioned, and the studies about stress were summarized. In the second part, with one of the highest ratio of organizational stress in all job branches, related police terminology, and the historical progress were described, and also given information about the sources of organizational stress in Turkish Police Department employees.In the practice part of the study, 51 chief of police and 411 policemen and policewomen with a sum of 462 police officers employed in Diyarbakır Police Department took role as the sample of the study. With the direction of the data gathered by the survey method from the number of police officers mentioned above, frequency of the sources of organizational stress seen on the participants, and the effects on them were designated by using the statistical analyses.The result of the study revealed the police officers are under stress but not such an extreme degree. Besides, the stress factors and the level of stress varied related to the ranks of the police officers and the departments where they are commissioned.Key words: Stress, sources of stress, organizational stress, police, police department.