ABSTRACT
The project work is aimed at critically examining “The roles of police public relations as a mechanism for improving police community relation in Dunukofia local Government Area”. It attempts at critically evaluating the roles the police plays to improve their relationship with the publics at large. It equally aims at ascertaining the mutual relationship between police and the people of Dunukofia Local government Area. Moreover, survey method is used in the design of the study while the primary source of data collection is the self administered questionnaire. Thus, the source of this study was taken from the target population, which consist of six towns existing in Dunukofia Local Government Area which includes Ukpo, Nawgu, Ifitedunu, Umunachi, Ukwulu, Umudioka both male and female. Systematic Random sampling technique was employed and a total of 180 respondents were administered. The responses were tabled in a frequency and later converted into sampling percentage as the method of data analysis. Hence, the findings showed that police plays an important role in trying to create a good community police relation with the people. It equally adopted the social responsibility theory which focuses on maintaining a two-way communication in order to continuously ensure understanding or resolve conflicts of interests between individuals, institutions, organizations and their publics, the police makes sure there is safety in the society and equally makes sure laws and orders are being maintained and obeyed so well in the society. It is then recommended that the police force of Dunukofia Local government Area must address itself to issues and problems the community considers as crucial and should pay serious attention the community’s yearnings and should equally, at every stage inform the community of the relation behind such benevolence and the community on the other hand, should reciprocate, using appreciative words towards the police kind gestures. The researcher hoped the suggestion of conducting a further study on the topic could be done if possible.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page i
Approval page ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement iv
Abstract v
CHAPTER ONE 1
INTRODUCTION 1
- BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1
- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 2
- OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 3
- RESEARCH QUESTIONS 4
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 5
- SCOPE OF THE STUDY 6
- DEFINITION OF TERMS 7
CHAPTER TWO 8
LITERATURE REVIEW 8
2.1. MISCONCEPTION ABOUT PUBLIC RELATIONS 8
2.2. USES OF PUBLIC RELATION 9
2.3. ABUSES OF PUBLIC RELATIONS 10
2.4. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 11
2.5. RELATED STUDIES 12
2.6. SUMMARY OF LITERATURE 18
CHAPTER THREE 19
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 20
3.1. RESEARCH DESIGN 21
3.2. AREA OF STUDY 22
3.3. POPULATION OF STUDY 23
3.4. SAMPLE AND SAMPLING PROCEDURE 24
3.5. METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION 25
3.6. METHOD OF ANALYSING DATA 27
CHAPTER FOUR 28
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS 28
4.1. PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF TABLE 28
4.2. QUESTIONNAIRES COMPOSED FOR THE MEMBERS OF POLICE FORCE. 32
4.3. INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA 33
4.4. FINDINGS OF RESEARCH QUESTIONS 37
CHAPTER FIVE 39
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 39
5.1. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 39
5.2. CONCLUSION 41
5.3. RECOMMENDATION 42
5.4. SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER STUDY 44
REFERENCES 45
APPENDIX A 47
QUESTIONNAIRE 49
CHAPTER ONE
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POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS AS MECHANISM FOR IMPROVING POLICE COMMUNITY (IN DUNUKOFIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA)
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