Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Thieving at the Department of Transport

I think the Department of Transport may need to review their vetting procedure when it employs staff (including their security guards). Apparently in the last 12 months they've managed to have £31,891 worth of computer equipment nicked from it's departmental offices.

As it happens the Tory MP for Monmouth, David Davies, has been asking how much stuff worth more than £100 has been nicked in the last 12 months from pretty much every Government department over the past month.

Give or take a thousand quid, computer equipment theft amounts to around £49,000 in the last 12 months. This means the Department of Transport is responsible for about 65% of all the computer thieving across Government.

No wonder the buggers want to bring in road pricing with the massive IT costs, it's probably all gonna be fenced out on eBay.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hang on, don't all the DoT staff have ID cards?
Don't ID cards stop thieving and wrongdoing.
Wonder how many illegal immigrants they got as well?

Bet they run the classic security scenario as in lots of offices. Tons of security, guards, barriers, scanners on the way in, nothing on the way out.

dizzy said...

just throw things out fo the window!