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The City of Toronto’s records in its Facilities Management division, where fake fire inspectors regularly won contracts to make sure municipal buildings were safe, are so bad that Toronto Police can’t even launch a fraud investigation.

Last Friday, city auditor general Beverly Romeo-Beehler, who blew the whistle on potential wrongdoing by a vendor and gross mismanagement by the city, told the audit committee that there is “definitely high risk for fraud” but pointed out that without good records and witnesses, it would be difficult to prove.

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“Can the police prove it?” she asked, rhetorically. “We’ve been in contact with them all along.”

Monday, the National Post confirmed that the documentation kept by Facilities Management is so poor police can’t even start a probe.

The schmozzle in the department came to light when Romeo-Beehler received serious allegations about a trio of companies – York Fire Protection, Advance Fire Control and Advanced Detection Technologies Corp. – which had been doing business with the city for about a decade.