Beck pledges to fix system

Police Chief Charlie Beck pledged Tuesday to correct accounting practices in the LAPD's purchasing division, which an internal audit found had mismanaged millions of taxpayer dollars.
Tony Castro in the Daily News.
But Beck told the Police Commission there was no criminal wrongdoing and that a new manual and training program would help resolve the problems of sloppy bookkeeping and purchasing policy violations.

"There's no indication that this money has been wasted or squandered - it just hasn't been tracked appropriately," Beck said of the audit covering the 2007-2008 fiscal year. "And we're going to fix that."

Beck, however, acknowledged that he had not been made aware of the audit until recently - leading Commissioner Robert M. Saltzman to chastise the administrators responsible for withholding the findings.