The effect of Court Security Officer's Empowerment on Security Performance: around Job Engagement of mediated effect

In modern society, the quality of life has improved due to the progress of the 4th industrial revolution, however, concerns about public safety have been issued attributed to the increase in violent crimes. To correspond to the violent crimes in court buildings, it has been emphasized for the court security officers to have enhancement of role and expertise. Accordingly, this study aims to analyze the effects of empowerment and job engagement on the security performance of court security officers and derive policy implications based on the results. Research survey was implemented to the court security officers working in the Daegu, Suwon, Seoul, and Busan High Courts, and 210 data were used for analysis. The results of the study showed that empowerment is related to job engagement, and job engagement is related to security performance. On the other hand, empowerment did not have a direct effect on security performance, but exhibited a complete mediating effect through job engagement. Based on this, various measures were proposed to strengthen empowerment, such as providing Tasers and granting legal authority to court security officers, expanding the authority under Article 64 Paragraph 2 of the Court Organization Act to the security management position, introducing a special promotion system, and sharing job-related know-how. From these findings, this study is significant in that it provides basic data for the security and improvement of court security officers and suggests policy directions to strengthen the security system of the judiciary.