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If the Office of the Inspector General is anything like the Internal Audit department I deal with, then I wouldn't be too worried. For example, IA came down one day with a list of 100 random serial numbers and said "show us these asset tags." I tried to explain radios are field deployed, not sitting under my desk but they didn't care. The wrote a report saying we lacked internal controls and failed to account for 100% of our inventory.
This triggered a comprehensive audit and after wasting nearly 170 labor hours they issued a follow-up report about how awesome and good they are at protecting corporate assets and, in a tiny footnote, a remark that the previous audit "may have had methodological issues which preclude its use a definitive finding of fact." But they "partnered" with us to deploy best practices to address "potential" shortcomings.
Heck, I had an auditor want me to open up a production router running Internet for about 5,000 clients to show them a serial number on a board inside to document we were fully utilizing all assets. They really didn't care that it would knock down 5,000 clients and trigger an SLA credit to them of $10,000.
Now that I have my flame retardant pants on, I will point out may of the previous comments have a political bend to them. Folks, the people who work in these jobs are regular peons like you and I and they really don't have a political agenda to push. Whether you believe it or not, really do want to do a good job as a matter of personal pride.
The Inspector Generals Office has the responsibilty for oversight, and to
prevent fraud and waste. They assign the blame. Kind of like a organization, or
corporate ombudsman. And there most definately is not supposed to be any retalliation against the employee(s)......retalliation in any shape or form,
for reporting descrepancys, fraud, waste, or abuse.
I work for a defense contractor. Our " radio guy " some time ago told me that the
vice-president of operations only wanted Motorolla radios in the industrial complex, after I suggested
a cheaper and better way to go......which at the time was Vertex. As I undenstand they
elected to go the most expensive route, like they have so many times.
From a safety standpoint, we need new vehicles. Hopefully my dream of
equipping them with dual band mobile radios comes true, but office people
and bean counters never listen to us folks in the field. We are a UHF / VHF area,
but again......bean counters dont pay attention.
The Marshals cannot find missing radios. I would say it is a accountability
error.
FF-MEDIC !!!!!