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The Media Unit of the Regina Police Service is made up of a Public Information Officer, a Media Development Officer, and a Social Media Officer. The responsibilities of this unit include:

  1. Responding to requests from news reporters. This can be providing daily incident information and statistics as well as accessing information and arranging interviews for investigative or longer feature news stories;
  2. Writing news releases on daily police operations and major investigations;
  3. Doing interviews with traditional media on police operations or coordinating media requests for other Police Service members including the Chief, Executive Officer and subject-matter experts;
  4. Designing, creating and maintaining the Regina Police Service website, and all tasks associated with this responsibility;
  5. Developing presentation materials, such as electronic presentations for various units within the Police Service;
  6. Developing print materials such as posters, advertisements and special event forms
  7. Carrying out the Regina Police Service United Way campaign;
  8. Organizing the Regina Police Service annual Open House;
  9. Developing and executing marketing plans for the above-mentioned events as well as other special events;
  10. Writing, design and layout of the Regina Police Service Annual Report;
  11. Developing and delivering in-service media relations training to police officers at the NCO level (supervisors); to all municipal police recruits-in-training at the Saskatchewan Police College; and to senior police members from municipal departments in this province at the Saskatchewan Police College;
  12. Organizing and hosting news conferences;
  13. Acting as liaison between media and police at major incident scenes;
  14. Advising the Executive on public communications as well as strategic and corporate communications;
  15. Researching, implementing, monitoring and evaluating new media technologies and policies for corporate communication.