IG Sindh announces housing, health facilities for policemen.

KARACHI -- Sindh police have decided to provide housing facilities to its officials and personnel with Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ghulam Nabi Memon saying that this would help them in performing their duties without having any worries.

'I am in contact with the planning and development department and working on pending housing projects,' the newly appointed IG Sindh said and added that they would launch the scheme that could have maximum housing units to facilitate the entire team.

He further announced bringing instalment-based housing schemes for policemen saying it would help in providing affordable housing facilities to the cops. 'We are also bringing health card facility for policemen, enabling free treatment for officials and personnel in private hospitals,' he said.

The IG further shared that the medical card would have a maximum limit of 250,000.

Speaking regarding expenditure of major chunk of budget allocated for police, Ghulam Nabi Memon said that 85 percent of it goes to pay salaries of the policemen.

Soon after his recent appointment, the IG Sindh has taken drastic measures to improve policing in the province through multiple measures.

In one such attempt, Ghulam Nabi...