Increase in workload and change in stress levels of security units in the process of endemics and pandemics

It is known that countries are highly affected by endemic and pandemic processes. In particular, some occupational groups are more affected by these processes, and workloads and stress levels increase in these processes. One of the occupational groups affected by these processes is the personnel working in the security units. In this study, the relationship between the increase in the workload of the police which is one of the security units and respectively the stress levels were examined due to the Covid-19 virus. In this study, the relational design was used as the research design which was conducted with a quantitative approach. The population of the research consists of police officers working in the central district police departments of Ankara Provincial Police Department. The sample of the research is composed of 1000 police officers working in the Police Headquarters affiliated to Çankaya, Mamak, Altındağ, Keçiören and Yenimahalle District Police Directorates. Police officers to be included in the sample were informed that their information would be kept confidential and would be used for a scientific research, and participation in the research was done on a voluntary basis. The analysis of the data collected with in the scope of the research was made through the SPSS 22 package program, and the findings of the research were obtained as a result of frequency, correlation and regression analyzes. 50.1% of the police officers in the study are between the ages of 26-35, 16.9% are women, 79.2% are married, and 89.7% are undergraduate and graduate graduates. In addition, 40% of them have 6-15 years of professional experience are among the demographic information obtained. As a result of the correlation analysis performed between workload and stress levels, which is the main result of the research, it was determined that there is a positive and moderate relationship between workload and stress levels. As a result of the regression analysis, it was determined that 9% of the stress in the police was related to the workload. In addition, it was determined that a change of 1 unit in the workload variable would cause a change of 0,315 in the stress level.