Discuss the relevant ethical and legal issues raised by the four paragraphs o f information below

Legal and ethical issues
1) Police department is under legal duty to comply with ‘code of ethics’ that exists separately from formalised or structured set of rules and regulations. It is worth mentioning that code is embedded with the department rules, however, experienced major shifts over the years where agencies are instituting a distinct code of ethics on their officers. It is understood as a broader conceptual statement of expected behaviour and conduct from officers. A running afoul of ethical code of ethics cause high potential impact on officers’ career as a violation of department’s legal regulation and ethical code of conduct.
The first ethical concern is based on agency’s core values and ethical creed. Each officer is issued and provided with these values and ethical concerns. In the underlying case scenario, polices officers are expected to receive written documentation of notice and information from the family members. It prevents raising disciplinary trail against police arguing that officers did not have any right of circulating photos of missing woman to media and other outlets. It reinforces police department’s commitment for protecting and respecting women’s dignity. Also, it is required by a Federal court that police department and its officers should carefully understand and interpret the value of protecting and respecting women’s dignity and position in a society (Mäntysaari, 2010).
In the underlying case, police seeks public help for finding is missing woman. For this purpose, police department and officials are authorised to provide a photo of the missing woman to the media. But, they are not entitled to provide media with the right of visiting her family home through finding address in the public phone directory. Police department, PR officer as well as media are not allowed to publicly announce name of the suburb or place where woman lives with her husband and adult son. For this, permission of her family members is necessary, without seeking their consent and permission, police PR officer is not entitled to disclose and publicise the name of location, her place and address to the public.
Second ethical and legal issue likely to arise from the underlying case is the deceptive behaviour by media outlets. It emerges from the case finding that that police PR officer has circulated headshot photo of the woman to all media outlets. It is worth mentioning that headshot photo is a modern portrait of a person used for creating a professional profile images on social media. Often, headshot is used by actors, models and authors for promoting their profile on social media. It is an artistic feature intend to portray subject in the best possible light, the purpose is to highlight the actor or actress expressing different poses and expressions giving employer an idea of subject’s range of appearance (Baxt, 2016).
In the given case scenario, police PR officer has given a headshot photo of the women to all media outlets. In this, husband is also found as to be guilty as he has given this photo to police. This act on the part of husband is clear violation of her wife’s dignity, integrity and privacy. As a husband, it is his legal, moral and ethical duty of protecting wife’s dignity and integrity from any kind of harm or deceptive behaviour. While circulating headshot photo to the media outlets, there are chances that some criminal mind people in the society would take advantage of it through wrongfully circulating headshot photo and using it for personal benefit or advantage (Nicholas, Margaret and Lachmi, 2012).
2) The history of constitutional law contains several story of balancing one’s right against another. In detailed terms, public holds the right to know everything occurring at different places and point of time, on the other hand, victims also need media outlets to respect their right to privacy. In the underlying case, channel Y and Z media personnel want unfettered access to public...