Abstract
This research focuses mainly on analyzing how the law and order situation affects the psychosocial conditions of general public that justifies the police reforms. For this purpose, the secondary as well primary data was collected. For the secondary data, the literature was cited. For primary data collection, 40 respondents were selected from District Kohat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for interview purpose. The respondents were male citizens of Pakistan having at least 20 years of age with a significant community life orientation. The secondary as well as primary data analysis has shown that the worsened law and order situation in Pakistan has resulted in increased crimes that resulted in public’s psycho-social sufferings. The crimes negative impact on the society has necessitated the police reforms in order to restore the law and order situation in the society.

Mamoon Khan Khattak, Khalid Usman Khan Khattak, Amir Zada Asad. (2015) Eliminating Psycho-social Sufferings: Restoring Law and Order Through Police Reforms in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Volume-07, Issue-3.
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