Police face financial crunch, SSP to send fund proposal to repair PCR motorbikes

Sukhmeet Bhasin

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Tribune News Service

Bathinda, January 21

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) is sending a financial proposal to the higher authorities for the funds to repair the PCR motorcycles which are lying defunct in the police line in the city.

All the PCR motorbikes given to cops to keep a check on the criminals are lying in the run-down condition. These motorbikes are standing there for the last six months as the police do not have funds to get it repaired. Now, they have decided to sent the financial proposal for the funds.

In the absence of the PCR motorbikes, police officials are facing many problems in chasing the criminals as officials are assigned duty on their personal vehicles, so they cannot chase behind the culprits who ran away after violating traffic rules or committing crime in the city.

Even these officials do not get the fuel from the department and have to burn the fuel from their own pocket. Due to which police officials do not patrol much and stand at one static point these days.

In 2012, the police force had been provided 25 Bajaj pulsar 150 cc motorcycles for the better policing in the city. They have to do patrolling round-the-clock in the city. But these mobikes were not maintained properly due to which they are lying defunct for a long time.

A police official on anonymity said they had to do patrolling on their own personal vehicles these days and even they do not get fuel from the department most of the time.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Indermohan Singh Bhatti, said the PCR motorcycles are lying in the run-down condition at the Police Lines and they are sending a proposal for the allocation of the funds for the repair of these bikes to the higher soon. He also stated but in absence of these bikes is not affecting the patrolling in the city.

Not only the PCR motorbikes, even the condition of the Women Armed Special Protection Squad (WASPS) Activa Honda scooters is also the same. The reason is that the the police department facing financial crunch.

It is pertinent to mention that these WASPS Activas were taken from the private people on donation by the police department in 2012.