Australia: Missing police cash prompts ethics probe | Ethics in Policing

NEWS > 10 August 2011
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Victoria Police Service
Australia: Missing police cash prompts ethics probe ASSISTANT Commissioner Graham Ashton has pledged to improve surveillance after thousands of dollars in cash evidence went missing from Victoria Police's crime department. The Ethical Standards Department is investigating the suspected theft of $5000 that had been seized as evidence by police in November 2010. Mr Ashton told The Age yesterday that monitoring equipment and procedures needed to be upgraded in the logistics and exhibits office, where the systems were installed in 2006. Advertisement: Story continues below He refused to say whether there were closed-circuit cameras installed in the unit, saying that information could compromise security. ''We are going to look to be upgrading the quality of the equipment that we use to do property management and property auditing,'' Mr Ashton said. The cash was discovered missing from the St Kilda Road office when police went to bank it in June this year. An external auditor has been engaged to review police procedures and the Office of Police Integrity is overseeing the investigation into the disappearance of the cash. Mr Ashton said the incident was ''deeply concerning''. The incident was not previously reported because ''we have been spending time making sure that it's not just a very straightforward case of the thing being in the wrong place''.


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