Internal Controls and Oversight in Criminal Investigation’s Fleet Management Program Can Be Improved

The Chief, Criminal Investigation (CI), should establish controls for CI fleet management to regularly review fleet information such as call-outs, commutes, and mission miles to identify and validate questionable fleet data.

The Chief, Criminal Investigation, should allow sufficient authority that fleet management may oversee and enforce necessary correction of data associated with vehicle and fleet use, such as lack of commutes or excessive or minimal call-outs and mission miles, and take appropriate action to rescind vehicle assignments and Home-to-Work authority when needed.

The Chief, Criminal Investigation, should allow for fleet management to update or expand on data compiled to allow for the capture of sufficient details associated with commutes and call-outs in order to accurately support calculations associated with Home-to-Work privileges.

The Chief, Criminal Investigation, should establish a policy, as required under TD P 74-01, with clearly defined and measurable utilization criteria that includes characteristics associated with the day-to-day use of both individually assigned and pool vehicles for law enforcement duties.

The Chief, Criminal Investigation, should prioritize potential cost-savings by establishing a process to regularly evaluate fleet vehicles against established utilization criteria and ensure that decisions to acquire and/or retain vehicles are based on a validated need.