On June 6, 2008, the ministry discovered that four monitors and two CPUs could not be found. Committee members expressed surprise that the ministry reported the incident one month later.

However, on August 5, 2008, a day before the office of the commissioner responded to the ministry's first request, another four CPUs and three monitors went missing from the same storeroom.

Letter written

Permanent secretary in the justice ministry, Robert Rainford, told PAC members that another letter was written to the police commissioner regarding the theft of the other units.

However, despite investigation by the police no breakthrough has been made into the stolen equipment.

Committee members wanted to know what measures had been put in place by the ministry to prevent a recurrence.

Rainford said the storeroom was removed to the 10th floor of the building and the computers and CPUs were now kept in a vault.

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