Duration: Aug 2014 – Aug 2015
Status: Completed
Funder/ Partner: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)
CBPS is conducting a study of the budgets of the Delhi Police over a three-year span. This is intended as a micro-study of the police budgeting process, with a particular focus on linkages with the police response to crimes against women. The scope of the work under this study is:
- To conduct a component analysis of the budget allocations to and expenditures of Delhi Police over a period of three years
- To map the process of planning, budgeting, approval, allocation and fund flow as practiced and experienced by Delhi Police
- To conduct a district level analysis of budgets to examine the link between spending and crime rates, especially for crime against women
- To analyse the resource mobilisation in hot spot areas (district) for crimes against women
- To provide a plan for advocacy and dissemination taking various kinds of stakeholders into account
- To document the process of data collection and analyse the data availability and accessibility from the perspective of transparency and accountability norms.
Presentation: Major findings of the study were presented at our Annual Seminar 2015 and is available here.