Law-Order

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 05th Jun, 2017 ) : Sindh Government has allocated Rs 92.91 billion for law and order in financial year budget of 2017-18, that reflected an increase of 10 per cent allocation of Rs 84.26 billion during current financial year.

This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while presenting the Sindh budget for financial year 2017-18 here on Monday. In terms of resource allocation, the share of Home Department including police, jails, rangers and other LEAs - is the second largest, he said.

Rs 2 billion has been allocated for purchase of vehicles for Sindh Police. Forensic Lab at an estimated cost of Rs 2.6 billion is being constructed to provide Sindh Police state-of-the-art center to investigate and solve complex crimes.

An amount of Rs 280 million has been allocated for setting up Intelligence school and Data Center for Sindh Police in the next FY 2017-18. Reception rooms will be established in all police stations of Sindh.

This facilities is designed to portray a softer image of Police. As many as 3000 posts are proposed for security of CPEC related projects. The capacity of Special Security Unit (SSU) is proposed to be enhanced by inducting 1000 personnel.

Rs 2 billion are proposed for procurement of security related equipment including hi-tech precision arsenal. A feasibility study of Rs 200 million will be carried out for installation of security cameras in major cities of the province.

Rs 195 million are earmarked for installation of CCTV cameras in various prisons of Sindh. The Sindh CM said that we are making efforts to improve prisons' condition and it is high time that we convert our traditional prisons in to correctional facilities.

For next financial year budget of prisons is being enhanced to Rs 4 billion, this reflects an increase of 19 per cent over the allocation for this financial year.