A glance at the role-playing results of interactions between police and media in Iranian penal policy

 In today world, by impacting on public opinions an established interactions between them, Police and Media play a vital role in penal policymaking at different countries so that the outcomes of such interaction in different legislative, judicial and executive fields are not hidden for anyone. Alongside media positive role in improving public awareness on criminal acts, crime prevention and relapse and their interactions with different penal justice system entities especially police, sometimes, we are observing limitations on operations by actors of such system, penal populism, contrasting approaches, severe penal responses, ethical disgusting or making the climate security on some crimes due to their undesired performance. An important issue is to consider the media active and effective role playing in penal policy arena and positive and constructive interactions with police and to study its different aspects. The experiences by successful countries in this regard indicate that strengthening penal justice, securing judicial independence, media control in penal affairs, avoiding unreal programs and news or media orientation and selection, and leading them to use analytical programs along with logic and scientific clarification of police position in confronting with criminal occurrences can keep penal policy of countries from precipitance trap, emotional reactions, penal populism and performance against justice judgment principles.