Introduction
Increasing insight, law enforcement knowledge, and using active and passive defense mechanisms have a significant role in crisis management, and many disasters can be solved with these mechanisms in the society. In this regard, an important factor is religious insight, encompassing political, cultural and economic insights. Insight refers to a kind of vision and knowledge to recognize true beliefs and distinguish them from false beliefs. In this regard, the one needs to be clever and conscious. Non-physical factors such as faith, motivation, education, discipline, traditions, national and ethnic prejudices, experience, command, morale, and insight are required to deal with crises. The current research aims to provide a structural equation modeling (SEM) of the relationship between insight and crisis management mediated by passive defense mechanism.

Methods
This is a descriptive survey using SEM method. The study population consists of the employees of Isfahan police department (FAA) in Isfahan, Iran, who had participated in the provincial insight courses (n=240). The sample size was determined using Cochran’s formula. By using simple random sampling method, 148 eligible employees were selected, all of whom were second-level managers. The standard crisis management questionnaires of Jahanbakhsh et al. (2015), a researcher-made insight scale with 14 items, and a researcher-made questionnaire of passive defense with 30 items were used to collect data. The internal consistency of three questionnaires using Cronbach’s α were 0.95, 0.94 and 0.97, respectively and their composite reliability values were 0.96, 0.95, 0.97, respectively. To analyze the data and test the hypotheses, correlation test, stepwise multiple regression analysis, and SEM were used in SPSS software, version 20 and Smart PLS software, version 23.

Results
The findings showed that insight and its components together with passive defense had a significant relationship with crisis management. The variable of passive defense also had a significant mediating role in the relationship between insight and crisis management.

Conclusion
It can be concluded that increasing insight is one of the important factors in improving the quality of crisis management along with paying attention to the dimensions and components of passive defense. Raising awareness in the society to deal with the soft war of the enemy is one of the strategies that can be helpful to overcome the crises and pay attention to the enemy’s soft war techniques, such as injuring the feelings of people and the norms and values of the society. Creating beliefs against the enemy’s beliefs is the role of insight. 
One of the strengths of this study was the attention to the hidden layers of crisis management in the performance of police missions. By understanding the concept of passive defense, the relationship between insight and crisis management can be understood and it can be used to prevent and deal with internal and external threats. The important and vital duty in such a challenging world full of conflicts and disputes is to protect the country by increasing the country’s power in all necessary fields. One of the important methods is to increase the insight of people.

Ethical Considerations

Compliance with ethical guidelines
All procedures in this study were in accordance with the ethical guidelines.

Funding
This research was funded by FARAJA Institute of Law Enforcement Sciences and Social Studies. 

Conflicts of interest
The author declared no conflict of interest.

Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank the commanders and managers of FARAJA for their cooperation in this study.




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