MENTORING IN THE POLICE IN CORELATION OF POLICE EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT
MENTORING IN THE POLICE IN CORELATION OF POLICE EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT

Summary/Abstract: Issues regarding mentoring, as a way of conveying experiential knowledge between the employees in the police are phenomena that affect in a significant manner the improvement of the police efficiency. Actually, mentoring refers to transferring the knowledge of the more experienced towards the less experienced police associates. Mentoring is a way of transferring the knowledge and skills in the area of police working gained through experience between the police employees, which leads to improvement of its efficiency. In correlation with this, the paper aims to emphasize few main points: - Mentoring is a process covering the transfer of the knowledge and skills between the employees; - Mentoring is important because of the professional development of the mentored employee, his/her working competences, training and involvement in implementation of the everyday activities, i.e. qualification for independent operation of the tasks of the specific job position; - Mentoring process positively affects the mentor her/himself because s/he professionally developed; being a mentor means recognition of the achievements and possession of qualities which impact the organizational development; the mentor gains new knowledge (s/he must complete new skills and techniques for transferring the knowledge); - Active participation of those who mentor and those who are mentored throughout the whole process is of exceptional importance for successful realization of the process. The practice in police units shows that enhancement of the mentoring process becomes a large necessity and the dedicated attention to this segment will affect in a great deal the police efficiency.

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