Automotive technical equipment of the Police of the Czech Republic
Press release on completion of the auditing operation No. 06/08
The auditing operation was included in the Annual Audit Plan of the Supreme Audit Office (hereinafter referred to as “SAO”) for the year 2006 under No. 06/08. The auditing operation was managed and the audit conclusion drawn up by Mr. Ladislav Zeman, the Member of the SAO.
The aim of the audit was to examine management of state property and funds used for automotive technical equipment of the Police of the Czech Republic.
The audited period covered the years 2003 to 2005 as well as previous periods in certain cases of relevant connections and the period up to the conclusion of the audit.
The audited bodies were the Ministry of Interior (hereinafter referred to as “MI”) and the Service Facilities of the Ministry of Interior. In the framework of the MI, the audit was executed at the Police Presidency of the Czech Republic and PCR Regional Administrations in Western Bohemia, Southern Moravia and Northern Moravia.
During the SAO audit, the PCR operated almost 11 000 service transport means (hereinafter referred to as “STM”) of acquisition price amounting to CZK 4.5 billion. Factual numbers corresponded with the systematization of STM elaborated by the MI in 2005. The audited entities of the PCR operated approximately 4 000 STM with acquisition price of CZK 1.5 billion.
Analysis of petroleum, oil and lubricants (hereinafter referred to as “POL”) consumption brought an observation that the most economical purchase would have been reached by maximising POL taking from own fuelling stations of the PCR. When the POL taking from own fuelling stations were impossible it would be more economical to prefer so-called ‘stations cards’ before payment cards ‘CCS’. It would be advantageous to make an effort for POL supplies to the own fuelling stations from the Administration of the State Material Reserves for a better price.
Some of newly purchased cars were not operated for a long-time and represented so-called standby. During the audit period, altogether 29 new cars were at the audited PCR entities, which were not used longer than a half year, some of them almost a year.
The process of STM discarding was bureaucratically complex and lengthy; it took a long time from a discard proposal to putting out it from books. In certain cases, it lasted more than a year.
A number of traffic accidents caused by policemen or PCR employees had downward trend as well as an overall number of traffic accidents.