EDUCATORS ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5768-1626
Dileta Jatautaitė
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4753-618X
Rūta Adamonienė
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7716-8093
Abstract
According to democratic ideas, a contemporary, mature, well-functioning, sophisticated, and democratic society honours both law and order and human rights, and, surely, their implementation in the everyday experiences of its citizens. The members of the public of such a society expect all societal institutions to perform their assigned tasks in a professional, reliable, and transparent way, including safeguarding human rights. This paper aims to present some of the regulations and the realities of contemporary police officers’ work, as well as the dominant concepts of Emotional Intelligence (EI) with an emphasis on contextualizing these theoretical concepts within the framework of specific empirical data. The paper is based on two research questions: RQ1: What are the aspects of the law enforcement officer’s professional activities and recent theoretical considerations regarding communication and EI? RQ2: What are the perspectives of the Lithuanian educators of the future (or current) police officers regarding the communication of law enforcement officers today? The empirical data was collected during the 1 quarter of 2024, under the framework of the POL-COM (KA220-VET - Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training project: A developmental and educational platform and gamified tools for training police officers and similar professionals, with respect to communications) project, where Lithuanian educators of the future (or current) police officers were invited to share their perspective on contemporary challenges, problem issues regarding communication competencies of law enforcement officers. Methods of critical analyses of references, such as studies, legal documents, theoretical considerations, and argumentation, an empirical study involving respondents – Lithuanian educators of the future (or current) police officers - were used for the development of this paper. Part of the data from this same stage of the multi-stage study, concerning the perspectives of law enforcement officers, was presented in previous publications and also in the pending publication.
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