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City auditor finds controls sound but recommends clearer policies and segregation of duties for fire-department controlled drugs
Summary
An audit of the Fire Department's inventory of DEA-controlled drugs found controls at fire apparatus and central supply largely effective but recommended policy clarifications, separation of central-supply duties and periodic inventories; the department said it has begun corrective action, including biometric safes.
The Office of the City Auditor presented an audit on Dec. 16 of the San Jose9 Fire Department's inventory controls for two DEA-controlled medications used by paramedics: morphine and midazolam.
The auditor reported two principal findings. First, apparatus-level controls largely matched best practices: medications are locked and secured, vials receive individual identifiers and paramedics perform daily checks with witnesses instructed to report…
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