The Significance of Social Work in The Framework Children Police Structure and Their Duties in Turkey

In this study, the roles and functions of the children police in the Police Departments for Children were explained and the child-police relationship with children pushed to crime was discussed in the context of social work discipline. In addition, for the sake of clarity of the subject, the historical development of the Directorates of Police Departments for Children, the structure of the organization, and the place and significance of social work in these departments are given. The fact that limited number of research in this area in Turkey justifies the necessity of this study. The main materials of the study consist of written sources, articles, reports, documents and theses written on children police and child relations and academicians' opinions on this subject