Section 53: Financial management and function as Heads of Department.

(1) The Director General of Police shall be responsible for submitting the budgetary requirements of the Police Service as a whole to the State Government, sufficiently in advance in the preceding financial year. He shall function as Heads of Department as desired within the administrative control of Home (Police) Department. (2) The budgetary requirements shall be carefully worked out on the basis of realistic needs of each branch, wing, unit and sub-unit of the Police Service, obtained from the unit officers concerned. (3) The District Superintendents of Police shall take special care to ensure that the financial requirements of each Police Station in the district are worked out meticulously and adequately projected in the budgetary demands of the district, thus leaving no scope for the Police Stations to feel handicapped for meeting the legitimate expenditure on day-to-day police work. (4) Subject to the provisions of the Delegation of Financial Powers Rules as amended and general direction issued by the Government from time to time, the budgetary allocations made by the Legislature shall be made available at the disposal of the Director General of Police who shall be vested with full powers to spend the amounts earmarked under each head of the Budget Account. (5) In order to meet various expenses on account of contingency expenditure, sufficient impress money shall be provided to police stations and other police units, the amount of which shall be reviewed and revised from time to time, as per the exigencies of circumstances.