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Vas
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Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 9:42 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://detroitnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20080724/M ETRO/807240372

Total 'lack of control' over city's $7 million gas supply.

Listen to this ashat......

"We've known for decades there have been things that need to be corrected," said Brad Dick, deputy director of the city's General Services Department, which oversees the gas stations. "We've known we've had things we've had to address and we are addressing them."

-Decades of knowing there's a problem and still no solution. Ashat

These people need to find a new career.
Any protests or bumper stickers on the criminals in city office?
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Flanders_field
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Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:14 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"Suspicious gas use by some employees, including one city police officer who used the same gas card to get gas seven times in one day for a total of nearly 85 gallons. Some of the fill ups were just minutes apart"

Suspicious?

Bwaahaha!!

Brazen thievery is more like it.
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Dpd_blue
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Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 11:09 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Often times the system is malfunctioning and maybe only one persons card will work at a police district. So that person has to use their card to fuel up the whole shift. The system has been a disaster since day one. It's not uncommon to have to drive to 3 or 4 different locations before you can get fuel for your scout.
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Mrsjdaniels
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Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 11:21 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dpd_blue...i feel you in the case of cops cars...it is a necessity...but these other employees not even returning cards
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56packman
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Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 11:54 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

During WWII the military had purple dye put into their gas, an MP might ask a private car owner to open his hood and take off the air cleaner so they could look down the throat for the dye. With electronic fuel injection today, not so easy.
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Marlonjb2
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Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 12:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'd imagine that the same could be done down the fuel filler tube to search for the dye, by something as simple as a cotton swab.
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Mauser765
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Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 4:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"Often times the system is malfunctioning and maybe only one persons card will work at a police district. So that person has to use their card to ..."

Read the article. The list of massive abusers includes RETIRED and FIRED police who never had their cards revoked.
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Mauser765
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Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 4:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

not to pick on the DPD, those are just some examples.
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Ray1936
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Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 5:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

DPDBlue, you mean the precinct ("district") stations don't have gas pumps any more?
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Dpd_blue
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Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008 - 8:51 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

only HQ and NE still have them. You have to goto the DPS yards to fill up.

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