경찰 바디캠의 사용의도에 관한 탐색 연구: 현장 경찰관의 의견을 중심으로

초록

The use of police body-worn camera has been widely increased in order to protect police officers from getting involved law-suits of excessive law enforcement. Cameras can be worn by officers mainly to investigate crime scenes and improve their performance of duties to build partnerships with community. Few studies have been conducted to examine the effectiveness of the police body-worn camera in South Korea by mainly focusing on the officers’ subjective perception. This study aims at exploring the effectiveness of body-worn camera in South Korea. In particular, the current study focuses on the perceived risk of police officers in terms of privacy matter. This study utilized qualitative research method for emphasizing the risk of violating the privacy issues and police officers’s subjective perception about the use of body-worn camera in community. Moreover, this present study conducted in-depth interviews toward nine police officers to analyze their attitude and opinion regarding the effectiveness of body-worn camera in 2023. Furthermore the study used the framework of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology(UTAUT). Results demonstrated that intention to use the body-worn camera was relatively high for all nice police officers in terms of its effort expectancy and performance expectancy in South Korea. At the same time, the perceived risk variable that is associated with managerial code and official guideline of the police body-worn camera played significant role in explaining the effort expectancy of body-worn camera. Besides the sub-culture of police organization can be an important factor that is related to the effectiveness of the police body-worn camera. Further policy implication will be discussed.

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