Wednesday 8 August 2007

Light Executive fingers.


So, Freedom of Information requests have revealed the list of items which have been stolen from the Scottish Executive over the last two years. Amongst the items to have been mis-appropriated include: "money, computers, laptops and a hi-tech Blackberry electronic device. Thieves have also stolen a kettle, an unofficial file, a suit and the bolts from a bike pedal. Details released under Freedom of Information showed that there had been 44 thefts over the two-year period, with 33 of these occurring in 2005-6 and 11 in 2006-7. "

Now Mr Smith has had to navigate his way through the security arrangements at Scottish Executive buildings and can have no doubt that it won't have been Executive visitors who will have walked off with the items above, but it does beg the question as to why Executive security staff didn't notice the rather well dressed thief walking out the front door of St Andrews House, talking on his new Blackberry, with a kettle under one arm and a laptop under the other. And what is an "unofficial file" anyway?

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