Abstract
Police station is the basic organizational and functional unit of police
working. From a citizen’s perspective, it is the gateway to criminal justice
system. Legally, it is defined in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 as a
provincially declared entity. The abstraction of this legal concept is deep rooted
in discourse of police reforms that take into account police station reforms as part
of larger justice sector reforms’ project. Most of the analyses of police culture
revolve in and around police stations. Historically, police stations were
envisaged territorially and were designed to cater to rural policing. Later on,
alongside the territorial conception of police stations, functional conception also
emerged leading to establishment of subject specific police stations like women
police stations, counter-terrorism department’s police stations and excise related
police stations. The territorial police stations, however, remained most prominent
as the legal framework of criminal justice system is more bespoke to them as
compared to functional police stations. Owing to the pivotal position of police
stations within criminal justice system, a dedicated Police Station Enquiry
Committee (M. A. K Chaudhry Report) was undertaken in 1976. In addition,
keeping in view the statistical value of police stations in economic planning, the
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) recorded total number of police stations in
the country. The PBS count shows Punjab having 705 (factually 720),
Sindhhaving566, KP having 281, Baluchistan having 125 and ICT having 22
Police Stations.
Kamran Adil. (2020) Implementing Police Station Based Budgeting in Pakistan, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Volume-12, Issue-3.
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