THE Office of the Public Auditor has questioned the disbursement of $8,308 in confidential informant funds of the Department of Public Safety for failure to adequately document and liquidate their expenses as prescribed by federal guidelines. Some police investigators are also currently in question for these funds.
In a 17-page report issued on Friday, OPA cited $3,500 in un-receipted expenses and $7,005 in unliquidated advances, as well as $2,197 in “excess” funds handled by a CIF custodian in fiscal year 2000 and 2001.
Public Auditor Mike Sablan, in the report, recommended DPS to take steps to recover the un-receipted expenses, and the unliquidated advances from the responsible parties.
OPA said the excess cash of $2,197 may have resulted either from inaccurate recording of cash advances or from unrecorded expense liquidation.
“DPS should ask the individual DPS investigators whether they actually received the cash from the former FY 2000-2001 custodian and if they have the documents to support the liquidation,” OPA said.
In an interview, DPS Deputy Commissioner for Administration Franklin Babauta said the department “is looking into the recommendations” of OPA.
“OPA representatives met with us regarding the CIF and we’re working on that,” said Babauta
