Abstract
It is very common that many citizens in Pakistan society believe public officials are corrupt. The study entitled “Crossing the line: A study of University students opinion about corruption in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan” exploring the opinion of university students regarding in police basic department and police personnel. Kohat University of science & Technology (KUST), Khyber Paktunkhwa was chosen as universe of the study. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire by using Likert scale from a sample of 300participantsdetermined through Sekaran table from six different departments of social sciences, students including both male and female. Total number of respondents (students) was 1329 in these departments and proportionate stratified sample technique was used to determine the sample size from each strata whereas systematic sampling method were applied to pick the samples from the six selected sample groups. The collected data was analyzed and tabulated. The results produced a number of key findings such as lack of check and balance on police personnel leads to corruption, corruption affects police performance and the recruiters are unfair in selection process of police personnel. On the basis of study findings, it is concluded that in students‟ opinion, police department is one of the corrupt department and there is lack of transparency since long which requires correction. The study suggests there should be proper check and balance system, merit based recruitment, seminars and workshops for raising awareness and strict punishment to those who are involved in corruption.
Keyword(s)
Corruption, Lack of transparency, Police, students and Pakistan