APPROVED: Miguel Ruiz, Co-Chair Guillermo Oyarce, Co-Chair Bruce Hunter, Committee Member Shawne D. Miksa, Program Coordinator Suliman Hawamdeh, Chair of the Department of Library and Information Sciences Linda Schamber, Acting Dean of the College of Information James D. Meernik, Acting Dean of the Toulouse Graduate School FACTORS AFFECTING POLICE OFFICERS’ ACCEPTANCE OF GIS TECHNOLOGIES: A STUDY OF THE TURKISH NATIONAL POLICE Bekir Cakar, B.A., M.S. Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS August 2011