AUD-GEER-25-01 - Recommendation 4

OIG recommends that the Bureau of Diplomatic Security develop, implement, and distribute guidance to overseas posts on how to develop disposition plans, including emergency destruction plans, for special protective equipment, hazardous materials, and armored vehicles. The guidance should include details on key considerations to make during the planning process, such as determining which stakeholders to involve in the planning process; planning for a variety of evacuation scenarios; considering timelines and resources needed to ship items out of the country; calculating the timelines needed to destroy assets at post; ensuring security personnel have access to all materials, tools, equipment, and vendors needed to execute the plan; identifying the number, type, and location of all assets to be destroyed; and developing trip wires to determine when to abandon efforts to ship assets out of post and instead pursue emergency destruction procedures. If available, the guidance should also include best practices from disposition plans developed by other posts.