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The Federal Bureau of Prisons'
Control Over Weapons and Laptop Computers

Report No. 02-30
August 2002
Office of the Inspector General

APPENDIX III

ANALYSIS OF LOST AND STOLEN WEAPONS AND LAPTOP COMPUTERS

WEAPONS
NUMBER LOSSTYPE2 DAYS BETWEEN THE DISCOVERY OF THE LOSS AND THE INITIAL REPORT 3 REPORTED TIMELY REPORTED TO NCIC DAYS ELAPSED BEFORE NCIC ENTRY REVIEWED BY BOARD OF SURVEY DAYS ELAPSED BEFORE APPROVAL BY THE BOARD OF SURVEY 4 REPORTED TO DOJ
1 L 1 YES YES 11 YES CND NO
2 L 0 5 YES YES 381 YES CND NO



LAPTOP COMPUTERS
NUMBER LOSS TYPE2 DAYS BETWEEN LOSS AND REPORT3 REPORTED TIMELY REVIEWED BY BOARD OF SURVEY DAYS ELAPSED BEFORE BOARD OF SURVEY 4 REPORTED TO DOJ
1 L 0 YES YES 84 NO
2L CND CND YES CND NO
3 L CND CND YES 6 NO
4 S 6 NO YES 166 YES
5 L CND CND YES 8 NO
6 L CND CND YES CND NO
7 S CND CND YES 588 NO
8 L CND CND YES CND NO
9 L CND CND YES CND NO
10 L CND CND YES CND NO
11 L CND CND YES CND NO
12 L 164 NO YES 160 NO
13 S 0 YES YES 180 NO
14 L 0 YES YES CND NO
15 L 0 YES YES CND NO
16 L 0 YES YES CND NO
17 L 0 YES YES 94 NO
18 L CND CND YES CND NO
19 L CND CND YES CND NO
20 L CND CND YES CND NO
21 L CND CND YES CND NO
22 L CND CND YES CND NO
23 L 0 YES YES CND NO
24 L 0 YES YES CND NO
25 L CND CND YES CND NO
26 S 0 YES YES 25 YES
27 L 0 YES YES CND YES

Footnotes

  1. tolen items are designated as S while lost items are designated as L.

  2. As previously noted, the BOP does not specify the format of a report of loss or theft by the responsible employee.  This date may refer to a telephone, verbal, or a memorandum report.  In some cases, insufficient documentation was provided, and we could not determine the elapsed time.  These cases are annotated as CND.

  3. Some of the Reports of Survey were not dated, and we could not determine the elapsed time between the initial report of the loss and the date that the Report of Survey was approved.  These are annotated CND.

  4. The loss of this weapon was immediately reported upon discovery.  However, all indications are that the weapon was missing for 18 months before the loss was discovered.