Abstract:
This research aims to study the understanding levels of the performance compare the understanding in the performance of community police officers with different ages, educational levels, jobs and duration of being volunteers and information perception and study problems and suggestions in the performance of community police officers under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Provincial Police Region. The samples were 130 community police officers volunteers selected by purposive sampling. Questionnaires were used for the data collection. The data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and One way analysis of variances : One way ANOVA and t-test.
Findings were summarized as follows:
1. community police officers volunteers under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Provincial Police Region had an understanding in 4 aspects at a high level, such as crime prevention and subjugation, public safety, traffic management, news spread and local coordination.
2. community police officers volunteers under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Provincial Police Region with different ages, duration of being volunteers and new perception had a different understanding at a significant level of 0.05. The ones with different educational levels and jobs had no significantly different understanding
3. community police officers volunteers under Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Provincial Police Region faced the problems in lack of equipment support such as radios for communication, torches, cuirasses and uniforms welfare. The suggestion was that there should be public relations to recruit people to be volunteers.