Karachi
Pakistan: 85 police mobiles seized by officials despite rise in crime in Karachi
Several police vehicles in Karachi have been seized despite a rise in crime in the city, media reports said on Sunday.
Petrol supply to the vehicles have also been shut for a month.
While street crimes and other criminal offences are on the rise in Karachi, at least 85 police mobiles have been confiscated by the Garden Police Headquarters under a check and balance system used for the station house officers (SHOs) of Karachi, reports Geo News.
Police officials say that there is a discrepancy between the running of police mobiles and the petrol withdrawn from fuel cards during July 2022.
Police sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Geo News that the police vehicles have been installed with trackers to compare the running of the cars and the petrol withdrawn. As per the tracker readings if the car is only run for 100 kilometres, then the officers are questioned why excess fuel was taken out from the cards.
Sources said that the 85 vehicles of police stations and officers were summoned last Sunday evening at the Garden Police Headquarters in the name of maintenance.
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