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The Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico issues a partially adverse opinion on the emergency purchase made to acquire a camera video surveillance system, and on the property controls related to the computerized equipment of the Office of Information Systems and Technological Support for Teaching of the Department of Education.

The Report reveals that $3.3 million was invested in a video surveillance system for the security and protection of the biometric time clocks. This time-clock system, which had been contracted in 2006 for $15 million, had reported 850 incidents, almost all due to acts of vandalism and destruction. To that effect, and to protect the sensitive information of the teachers and the nonteaching staff, in 2009 the project to protect and watch over the biometric terminals through 1,682 installed cameras was carried out and certified. However, our examination revealed that this video surveillance system has not been used since 2010.

The five-finding audit indicates that a service to install and configure 2,000 security cameras was paid for when in reality 224 of these cameras were left uninstalled in the vault of the Computer Center. In addition, two storage systems were not located, 12 servers were not marked with a property number, duplicate serial numbers were verified on tablets, and multiple control failures that increase the risk of loss and improper use of the property.

Our auditors identified that in the contracting of a company to perform a physical inventory of the DE's fixed assets in 2011, the invoices did not include the detail of the inventory performed at 72 schools, seven educational regions, and one school district. Nor did the company present a detailed report of the quantity of fixed assets it found unidentified and that were labeled, as the contract provided.

The Report covers the period from June 12, 2013 to May 29, 2015.

See Audit Report TI-18-02.

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