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To: JPR who wrote (9945)	12/8/1999 6:33:00 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Creative ways to pay for Gas Guzzlers - Ask a barefoot paki Cop on the beat Paki Police Academy major subject: Bribery and Extortion---JPR dawn.com Police resort to extortion to meet expenses By Arman Sabir KARACHI, Dec 7: Some 102 police stations in Karachi do not have sufficient funds to meet various operating expenses, since the major chunk of the budget is spent on salaries, allowances, utility bills, new vehicles, weapons and other necessary apparatus. In order to meet the operating expenses, the police inevitably resort to extortion. The officials of large police stations have to do a lot of patrolling, which requires consumption of a lot of fuel. The Gas Guzzlers, AKA APCs----JPR Above all, they have been given armoured personnel carriers (APCs) that consume petrol instead of diesel.The consumption rate is one kilometre per litre. The fuel consumption charges are, by and large, generated by police officials through extortion. The police extort money from those who get their houses constructed on a piece of land leased by the KDA. Pakistani Police Academy: Major subject: Extortion and bribery, minor subject: policing---JPR The sources said the "training of extortion" was given at the Police Training Centres, where the trainees were allowed to go home after bribing their senior officers. The main target of extortion are motorcyclists. The police sources said most of the motorcyclists in the city did not carry all relevant documents. The second largest source of income of a police station is gambling dens, which are being operated under the patronage of police stations in their respective areas. A considerable portion of the den's income is allocated for thana (police station).