Audit of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection’s Business Compliance and Enforcement Division

Executive Summary

BACP conducts unannounced business inspections to identify license violations such as selling unstamped cigarettes, drug paraphernalia, or expired infant formula. When BACP investigators find contraband, they issue an Administrative Notice of Violation (ANOV), confiscate those items, and store the items for hearing.

The objectives of the audit were to determine if:

1. BACP had adequate safeguards over property it confiscated, and
2. BACP’s property inventory was both physically present and accurately recorded in its inventory database.