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B-229587 1 (1988-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacsmt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -nited SI- sa Genel Accounting office ashlitoDn, D.C. 20548 OOce of the General Counsel B-229587 January 6, 1988 James E. Webb, Associate Deputy Chief Forest Service Department of Agriculture pear Mr. Webb: This is in reply to your letter dated November 2, 1987, requesting that Geraldine Dawn Chilen, a Forest Service Collection Officer and Imprest Cashier, Sisters Ranger District, at the Deschutes National Forest, Pacific Northwest Region, Bend, Oregon, be relieved of liability for a loss of $1,133.14 in her imprest fund account. A forest service investigation revealed that the money was taken from Ms. Chilen's safe during the course of a burglary at the Sisters Ranger District offices. For the reasons set forth below, we grant relief. The record states that a burglary of the imprest fund of which Ms. Chilen is the cashier took place on April 10, 1987 at the Sisters Ranger District office, in Bend, Oregon. The investigation report indicates that entry to the building was made by force. Locked desk drawers were pried open and file cabinets tampered with. The investigation report also states that During the course of the burglary several safes were opened by the use of combinations obtained while subject or subjects ransacked desk drawers throughout the office. Despite the investigation, the stolen money has not been recovered. The combinations to all the safes were stored in the safe of Recreation Assistant, Paul Engstrom. The combination to his safe, entrusted to Ms. Chilen, and the combination to her own safe were written down and hidden by her in an unlocked desk drawer at her work station. The Forest Service believes the loss of Ms. Chilen's imprest fund was made possible by its failure to effectively promulgate regula- tions on safeguarding combinations, rather than any negligence on the part of Ms. Chilen.

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