ISLAMABAD: The capital’s police department’s investigation wing has been allocated Rs8 million in the upcoming fiscal year’s budget, reported a local media outlet.
A police official said that Rs3.2 million had been used four months prior to the end of the fiscal year and was therefore set aside in the outgoing budget.
Police had requested the interior ministry for Rs30 million but the ministry did not grant the funds, following which Islamabad’s 22 police stations spent Rs25 million on the investigation of cases via “other sources”.
Complainants had to cater to the expenditure being done on the investigation of their cases and the police needed at least Rs119 million for the investigation of cases, added the officer on condition of anonymity.
The capital’s police’s standard operating procedure (SOP) fixes Rs19,800 as investigation cost for a murder case but at least Rs0.1 million is required for the investigation of such a case.
“There are only three draftsmen that can draw a crime scene map and they charge Rs20 thousand to Rs50 thousand per case,” said the official, adding that the official rates have not been revised since the year 2011.
Rs9,700, Rs4,000, Rs4,700 and Rs16,500 are the investigation costs fixed for robbery, burglary, theft and vehicle theft cases respectively.
