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Dothan gun audit prompts call for disciplinary action
6/21/2006, 5:53 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Disciplinary action will be recommended for Dothan police because an internal city audit of firearms in the department's evidence room found little care was given to tracking guns, some of which ended up in the hands of officers.

Chief John Powell's recommendations to the City of Dothan Personnel Board will include letters of caution, reprimand and suspension. But Powell said he will not recommend any terminations and that none of the policy violations reveal criminal action.

"We've followed down all the leads we had and have recovered as many guns as I think we are going to," Powell said Tuesday. "I want to commend the officers that returned the weapons."

Powell stressed that the audit goes back many years and that many of the officers involved were not aware of the department's policy or that they were breaking those policies.

The findings of the audit were reported by The Dothan Eagle, which got a copy of the audit Friday through a public records request.

More than 760 firearms were verified as existing in the room and recorded in the department's computer system, but 170 guns listed were not found.

Among the findings: Guns were taken for personal use and guns listed as destroyed were being used by officers; guns assigned to one officer ended up with another; guns reported stolen were never returned to owners but kept by officers; and weapons were "checked out" to city employees in other agencies and even to private citizens.

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Information from: The Dothan Eagle
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-22/115092715760790.xml&storylist=alabamanews
 
I'm not real bright, but I don't need a policy letter to tell me if I find a gun that was reported stolen I need to make sure the rightful owner gets it back or that if I report a gun destroyed it better be destroyed. The chuckle heads need to be showed a the back door at a minimum and the courthouse for those in posession of stolen guns.
 
It's okay, they are the police

So it's not a problem for government employees to steal guns, but it is an outrage that private citizens can buy guns...

I just love the way the antigun types think.:barf:
 
Sickening

Sounds like "evidence" was treated like "booty".
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It always has been. Now, with the war on drugs, the forfeiture laws make it perfectly legal provided that you can accuse the ITEM itself of being related to a drug crime, even if the OWNER of the item had nothing to do with such a crime, and even if the police have no proof. Lot's of cash on ya? Must be drug money - no one carries that kind of cash these days. Is it any wonder police are seen is such a negative way by the public when they do things like this, without any punishment. Let's see, "marked as destroyed, but still in use". So that's an ACTIVE fraudulent concealment made for the purpose of THEFT of an item from the department or its otherwise rightful owner. No problemo. :barf:
 
"Chief John Powell's recommendations to the City of Dothan Personnel Board will include letters of caution, reprimand and suspension."

I'll bet if *I* had stolen a gun and got caught, I would get more than a letter of reprimand.

Tim
 
Youre missing the point thier cops

Might just be me but cops can get away with just about anything, just another example is all. why i stoped watching shows like cops, breaks my heart to see them blatenly disobey laws... on my house we post no treaspasing but yet ive seen them drive right by them into my drive to talk about local incidents, the signs arnt just for citizens they apply to the cops too, if a cop wants to talk to me we can talk on a public highway,
 
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