Police and Media Relations has been a concern for both the police and media for decades. For law enforcement, the policy has always been to give as little information as possible. The media is believed to be the enemy who is always looking to destroy the credibility of officers. The media feels that law enforcement is always hiding information. Media feel that they are the ears of the public and it is their duty to “tell it like it is”. But good relationship between these two entities can play positive role in the society. Bangladesh is a developing country whose society consists of the combination of both open and closed society. The relationship between police and media has important effect in developing or restructuring the society of Bangladesh. As a police officer and a student of MPS under the University of Rajshahi, my term paper topic ‘Study on the Relationship between Police and Media in Bangladesh’ is interesting to me. I have conducted my study through review of literature on police-media relation in Bangladesh and a questionnaire survey on police personnel and media people in Noakhali region specially. The questionnaire has been formed with different aspects of interaction between police and media through which I have collected opinion of them. Based on the literature review outcome and the group opinion outcomes of police and media personnel I have tried to identify the points of non-cooperation between police and media and then to find out the possible remedial measures of it. Statistics of the research outcome are shown in both charts and tables.
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