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Audit finds gaps in Knox County Sheriff’s Office fleet management; auditors recommend formal fleet manual, maintenance tracking, payroll fixes
Summary
An internal audit found no evidence of fraud in KCSO’s fleet but identified four areas for improvement: informal policies and civilian-driver training, late preventative maintenance (52% in sample), taxable fringe benefits not applied for most civilian take‑home vehicles, and discrepancies in capital‑asset lists.
Harrison Lewis and Nathan Wallace of Knox County Internal Audit presented a KCSO fleet management audit on June 16 that found no substantial evidence of fraud but identified four areas needing action.
“We did not find any substantial evidence of fraud, waste, or abuse by KCSO fleet,” Lewis said. The audit covered KCSO vehicles and program participants from Nov. 15, 2023, through Nov. 15, 2024, and noted KCSO’s fleet accounts for about half of the county’s roughly 1,000 vehicles.
The audit’s principal findings: auditors urged KCSO to adopt a formal fleet operations manual because, while general orders exist, many day‑to‑day processes are not documented and civilian drivers lack a department‑administered safe‑driver training course. The report pointed to a lack of a dedicated fleet safety program for KCSO compared with other…
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