Ample funds for law, order, says Murad

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presenting the provincial budget said that we have been able to restore peace not only in Karachi, but to the entire province.

He said Rs.1000 million were allocated for disbursement as compensation to the families of Shuhda and injured personnel, recruitment of 10,000 police personnel made through NTS, Rs.159 million provided for training of newly recruited Police Constables at Pak Army Training Centers, Investigation capability is being enhanced by establishing a state of the art forensic lab besides DNA lab and crime record database, for the first time in the history of Sindh Police, all driving license branches throughout the province have been centrally connected and driving licenses are being delivered to the applicants at their doorstep through courier service, Public-Police interface is being strengthened by establishing facilitation centers at each Divisional Headquarter for providing people-friendly one window police services to citizens, including the registration of FIRs, lodging of miscellaneous complaints, etc.

He announced a large number of schemes in the following areas which include revamping of CTD and creating a professional & dedicated force styled as Counter Terrorism Force (CTF); enhancing compensation for Shaheed / Injured at par with other provinces and allocating Rs.2 billion compensation package. Creating 2782 posts for security of CPEC related projects; 2,959 posts for Training, Crime Branch, Traffic and Technical Training Sindh for enhancement of capacity of these units; and 11,259 posts of different ranks for Sindh Police. Allocating funds worth Rs.5.712 billion in SNE (New) 2018-19 for purchase of Physical Assets; Rs.5.348 billion for Sindh Police; Rs.306.855 million for Pakistan Rangers (Sindh); and Rs.14.865 million for Frontier Constabulary (Sindh); and Rs.42.996 million for Home Department and its attached offices.

He said that the measures which were out of Sindh governments, mandate, therefore they have been taken up with Federal Government for further improvement in overall crime control. He gave the example of setting up an integrated national database comprising CNIC, driving license, vehicle number plate, arms license, SIM etc, making unified Criminal record database at national level with access available to all the law enforcement agencies and developing a Mechanism for effective monitoring of social media including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, etc.