Standards of Professionalism V W
e have all heard comments such as “He/ She is very professional” or someone describing
another’s actions as “so unprofessional”. But what does it mean? How do we assess that?
My opinion is that standards of professionalism and appropriate behaviour filters are largely built into a person. You start learning them from a young age and they have lots to do with your learnt and taught behaviour as a child, youth and adult.
Professional Standards is the term often used to describe an organisation’s rules of behaviour or ethics. I worked at various levels within Professional Standards departments for about a third of my policing career and I have seen behaviour that would definitely be described as unprofessional when held against a backdrop of policing London (or any city for that matter).
It is my experience that frontline operatives of
any profession are expected to have higher standards of professionalism than other members of the general public. Frontline shop staff, rail and road workers, police, healthcare professionals and security teams are all subject to greater scrutiny. This has only been exacerbated in the past year due to the
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