Report 2015-129 Recommendation 12 Responses

Report 2015-129: King City Police Department: Strengthening Management Practices Would Help Its Efforts to Prevent Officer Misconduct and to Regain the Public's Trust (Release Date: July 2016)

Recommendation #12 To: King City

To ensure that gasoline cards are used consistently and appropriately, the Department should develop a formal process by December 2016 for monitoring gasoline invoices and transactions. The Department should implement a policy that includes a requirement for gasoline cards to be issued to patrol vehicles as a means to track gasoline usage against vehicle mileage. The requirement should also include a description of how the Department will identify the officer responsible for each gasoline card purchase, either by assigning a unique identifier to each officer or by using a vehicle assignment log.

60-Day Agency Response

New cards were issued for each department vehicle and each employee was issued a specific pin code. Gas usage can now be tracked by each vehicle and employee. Each usage of the vehicle card requires an employee id number and vehicle mileage entry.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2015-129

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.