The purpose of this study was examining ETVâ€™s representation of crime and justice in itsrnPolice Program. The study was situated within a broader theoretical paradigm of culturalrnstudies but was specifically informed by theories of representation, semiotic, and Marxistrntheory of Ideology. In order to address the research questions posed, a qualitativernmethodological approach was employed. What is more, informed by semiotic and Marxistrnanalytical approaches, textual analytic method was also used. In order to augment therntextual data, interviews were conducted with producers of the Police Program. Textualrnanalysis was conducted on twelve (12) weekly programs transmitted via ETV during a sevenrn(7) - month period.rnThe study revealed that the news narratives of ETVâ€™s Police Program constructed the imagernof criminals, victims, police/policing, and courtroom differently to its viewers. Criminalsrnwere portrayed as villains bent on inflicting heinous act against innocent victims in order tornachieve their premeditated goals. Often times, they were identified through their picturesrnwhere the police were said to be pursuing them in order to arrest them. When arrested, theyrnwere often portrayed as powerless subjects paraded in front of judges in the courtroom,rndemonstrating the power of the institution of policing or the law enforcement bodies as wellrnas representing the court as the ultimate dispenser of justice. In so doing, the newsrnnarratives delegitimized crime and criminality whereas it legitimized the institution ofrnpolicing and the justice system in the eyes of the public.rnWith respect to the packaging of news narratives about the victims, the police program usedrngraphic images of body injuries, fresh wounds and medical treatments the victims werernivrnundergoing in order to evoke public sympathy for the victims, on one hand, and inducernmoral outrage against the perpetrators, on the other.rnThe ubiquitous portrayal of the images of police and policing in the news stories and thernroutinizing of their activities also served the ideological function of the institution in thernsense of helping the public take for granted the institutional role of the police/policing in thernsociety and see it commonsensical; in so doing, it bestowed legitimacy to communityrnpolicing as an institutional response for the control of crime and criminality.rnOwing to its wielding of institutional power, in the news narratives, the police served asrnnews sources, defined the news value, and framed the stories in a way that favored theirrnworldview. As a result, the portrayals became susceptible to stereotyping of the subjectsrnbased on gender, age and class of criminals and victims.