Author(s): Mohammed Ebrahim Alsuwaidi, Nusaibah Binti Mansor
The security of tourists is one of the main requirements in countries familiar with tourism and pleasures. Many countries like UAE with large number of tourists have developed tourist police service to ensure the safety of tourists. Thus, the performance of law enforcement organizations such as tourist police department is essential to provide a safe destination for tourists and international guests. Accordingly, it is important that the leaders of tourist police departments to be effective and capable to deal with security challenge. Based on this argument, there is a need for a robust research to examine the impact of transformational leadership on police performance. This study is a theoretical attempt to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational performance in tourism police department of Dubai. The information gathered through this study, would enable the researchers in policing to present recommendations for law enforcement organizations in UAE and other countries as well so that helping police officers to fight crimes and control threats on tourism industry.