Financial Security and Perception of Service Commitment – A study on United Nation (UN) Peace Keeping Experiences of Bangladesh Police Personnel

Abstract

This study has focused the participation of Bangladesh police in the united nation peace keeping mission with a view to assessing the impact on their perception from the perspective of age, gender and education diversity. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were applied to gather useful insights about the benefits of participation in UN peacekeeping mission. The findings of this study reveal that the impact of UN Mission works in individual level of changes. Organizational changes are also evident after the experiences in UN Peacekeeping Mission. Standard policing, pragmatic training program, digital working environment, prompt action against the complaint, respect to the work, strong time sense, structured and integrated working system etc. are very much evident after the experiences in UN Peacekeeping Mission. Findings also reveal that UN Peacekeeping Mission helps to change the mentality of police members and creates the opportunity to ensure good governance and to protect the rule of law of the country. UN Peacekeeping Mission is a kind of training field in learning sensitivity, sensibility as well as humanity. The UN compensation rates for peacekeeping operations are attractive to Bangladeshi soldiers and police. The income they derive from the mission invested in different asset purchase activities. Among potential area of investment, land purchase is top ranked as the key investment area to both male and female for UN peace keepers. Findings reveal that 46% of male and 47% of female have invested their income from UN Peace Keeping Mission in land purchase. Saving account is the second key area of investment of their income. 23% of male and 26% of female peace keepers have opened saving account by their peace keeping mission income. Perception about financial security across gender is showing that 71% of male and 69% of female think that peacekeeping mission enhanced their financial security.