Dallas Police Need to Work on Their Drug Filing System
United Press International
Mar 18, 2010
Dallas police said an old file cabinet sent from a police property room to a local resale store was full of drugs when shop workers opened it.
The Dallas Police Department Property Unit said the file cabinet, one of several marked to be cleaned out and sent to Dallas CityStore to make way for new shelves, was apparently not checked before it was sent out and receiving employees at the store discovered 123 bags of illegal drugs inside, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.
"It was a terrible oversight," police spokesman Sgt. Warren Mitchell said. "We're going to see where we went wrong and try to fix that problem."
Investigators said no customers came in contact with the heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine and the bags were still sealed when police reclaimed them.
"Every seal was still sealed. They did not appear to be tampered with and they put them back in the vault," Mitchell said.
The department's internal affairs department is investigating and those found responsible for the oversight could face disciplinary action, officials said.
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