Victorian Police Lost $120 Million

The amount squandered by Victoria Police’s troubled IT department was more than $120 million, three times the sum detected by the Ombudsman, a former senior police manager says. Richard Kennedy, the force’s former manager of strategy and business relationships, said the IT department was systematically milked by IBM for years before any action was taken. Hundreds of millions of dollars were lost, and the Ombudsman, Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon and the auditor- general were repeatedly warned, Mr Kennedy said. The whole thing is just an unbelievable disaster