PESHAWAR, Aug 10: The Public Accounts Committee of the NWFP Assembly has expressed displeasure over police department’s failure to present documentary proof of its expenditure in 2001-2.

In a meeting presided over by Speaker Bakht Jehan Khan on Thursday, the committee was reviewing audit objections on accounts of the police and prison department of 2001-2, a press release said.

The meeting took strong notice of the fact that departments showed dereliction in presenting record and thus wasted the time of the PAC in clearing objections made by the audit department.

It ordered that administrative secretaries should preside over meetings of district accounts committees.

The participants directed a sub-committee to hold investigation into disbursement made by the police department in different districts within two months.

The meeting also issued directives that departments should give advertisements in newspapers about repair of vehicles.

It also ordered increase in telephone bill ceiling of police officials.—APP