Publication date: Sep 16, 2025
Based on an early 2020s survey of 3,500 police officers from nine countries, this paper explores perceived community and police adherence to the COVID-19 regulations. We propose that both public and police perceived adherence with the COVID-19 rules are related not only to individual-level factors (e. g., gender, concern for own health) but also to country-level factors (e. g., quality of governance, protection of citizens’ rights). Our findings reveal that individual-level factors, such as the concerns for personal and family health, were strong and consistent predictors of perceived community and police adherence. While misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with the perceived community adherence, it was not related to the perceived police adherence. Moreover, country-level factors, such as the stringency of COVID-19 rules and regulations and the protection of citizens’ rights, were also significantly related to both perceived community and police adherence.
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| 2020s | country-level factors |
| Covid | COVID-19 pandemic |
| Pandemic | police |
| Police | rule adherence |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
| disease | IDO | country |
| disease | IDO | quality |
| disease | MESH | family health |
| disease | MESH | Long Covid |