The Department of Justice's
Control Over Weapons and Laptop Computers
Summary Report

Report No. 02-31
August 2002
Office of the Inspector General

APPENDIX I

TIMEFRAMES FOR INVENTORY DATA

As noted on page 6, the time periods covered by the data presented in the report vary from component to component. These inconsistencies occurred because the INS audit was completed before our simultaneous special audits at the BOP, DEA, FBI, and USMS began. Therefore, our data for the INS is older than that of the other components. In addition, while we attempted to obtain data for the same time periods for the other audits, the components were not always able to provide information for specific cutoff dates. The table below provides the time periods covered by the data used throughout the report.

COMPONENT TOTAL STAFF AGENTS OR OFFICERS TOTAL LAPTOPS LAPTOP LOSSES TOTAL WEAPONS WEAPON LOSSES
BOP 33,859 32,790 2,690 27 20,594 2
June 2002 August 2001 October 1999
to August 2001		 August 2001 October 1999
to August 2001
DEA 9,209 4,529 6,134 Unknown 14,921 16
September 2001 November 2001 Not Applicable November 2001 October 1999
to August 2001
FBI 26,748 11,193 15,077 317 49,696 212
March 2002 August 2001 October 1999
to January 2002		 August 2001 October 1999
to January 2002
INS 34,844 19,600 Unknown Unknown 50,306 539
June 2002 Not Applicable Not Applicable September 1998 Through
November 1999
USMS 7,561 6,261 1,450 56 14,361 6
January 2002 August 2001 October 1999
to August 2001		 August 2001 October 1999
to August 2001