The paper aims at presenting the relations between the police organization, the external public, the organization and the internal public through critical analysis of the hierarchical principles and values within the police organization. Special emphasis is put on the relations of the external public towards the Slovene police force and from this, the research problem had been formulated. Further, the police managers' views regarding fundamental values, such as fairness, legality, transparency, are presented and compared with research carried out on a general population sample. In conclusion, proposals for improving the situation in this area in the Slovene police force are outlined.
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