The Role of Policing and Public Relationship in Pandemic: A Case Study of Lahore

Abstract

The COVID-19 episode began as pneumonia in Wuhan, China at the end of December 2019. The resulting pandemic was proclaimed as the 6th general crisis of global worry on January 30, 2020, by the World Health Organization. It is very important for the sake of administration of justice that the relation of police and the public must be based on trust, respect and confidence. The relationship of Police and the Public is not much positive especially in Pakistan. There are certain reasons behind the negative image of Police department. COVID-19 largely affected the whole world including Pakistan. COVID-19 puts extra burden of work on health department and police department. The Government of Pakistan imposed lockdown to control the seriousness of COVID-19, and police department got the duty to impose that lockdown and SOP’s. In this research we found the impact of COVID-19 on relationship of Police and the Public during pandemic period remained positive. ‘Mixed methods’ is the bases of the following research.