Earlier this year, police salaries were increased and many are now being paid through bank transfers, so no one is able to take a cut of a policeman's pay before it gets into the hands of the employee.

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He believes some of his own police are actually involved in these transfers, in other words, taking them from Kirkuk and moving them to prisons in the north where often months will go by without their families hearing from them.

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In a statement Monday, Tejendra Khanna, Delhi's lieutenant governor who is also the operational head of the city's police, said he had approved the transfers of a number of senior officers.

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Mr Cavallo has cut transfers to the provinces, which run schools, hospitals and police forces.

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