Starting June onwards, personnel of the Mumbai Police will have to purchase bus tickets to travel in BEST buses. The police department had previously tied up with BEST to give free ride services to around 40,000 police personnel. Police officials told mid-day that  they decided to discontinue the service as only 20-30 per cent of the force uses BEST’s services. 

Earlier, the Home Department of the Maharashtra Government was allotted a fix transportation allowance of Rs 400 per police personnel. As per the new policy, they will receive a transportation allowance of Rs 2,700 as part of their salary. Speaking with mid-day, Joint Police Commissioner of Admin Rajkumar Vhatkar said, “Members of the police department were not travelling in these buses, but we were giving a certain amount to the BEST every year, [which didn’t make sense].”