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Tayside Police always seek to develop an open relationship with journalists that will improve our image by providing the public - via the media - with positive information about what we do.

The Force's media policy outlines a framework for officers and members of support staff to represent Tayside Police by speaking to the media about their achievements, correcting inaccuracies and explaining the background to incidents and situations.

The public has a huge interest in law and order issues and the media pays significant attention to matters that involve policing and crime and therefore we must be both proactive and reactive.

It is our policy to be open and honest in dealing with the media and respond to their enquiries within their deadlines as far as possible. We will tell the media things which
  • Are in the best interests of the public to know about
  • Help to show the public the way in which Tayside Police go about their work
  • Help to build public confidence in the police
We have a duty to let the media know things that should be in the public domain. In the course of our work we gather information which can be released to the media for policing purposes, such as crime and road accident prevention. However, in doing so we need to balance the policing benefit against protecting the rights of any individual or victim and ensuring the successful conclusion of any investigation.

Our aim is to provide the media with factual information about incidents, cases, investigations or issues Tayside Police are involved in, providing that disclosure would not compromise an investigation, operation or the judicial process.

The Senior Media Relations Officers within the Corporate Communications Section are responsible for
  • Liaison with the local, national and international press
  • Taking the media on police operations
  • Providing media training to officers in-house and to external agencies
  • Producing the Tayside Police magazine "Copperplate"
  • Liaison with programme makers for factual documentaries and fictional work

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