In this Internet age, there’s a lot more concern about employees’ access to sensitive company electronic records. But something as old-fashioned as making sure someone with access to cash turns it over every day can still be problematic.

Years ago we knew someone who had been a toll collector on a state highway.

If he was more than $3 short on any given day, that would cause a problem.

“Most of the time I was $2.90 short,” he said.

That’s nothing compared to this story from Irvington, NJ.

Rodney Dennis  was a civilian employee of the city’s police department.

Part of his job was to empty coins from the city’s parking meters.

Authorities claim Dennis didn’t deposit the coins into a police account as he was supposed to. Instead, he allegedly put them into his own bank account. He’s been charged with stealing the money.

He allegedly deposited more than $30,000 in coins into his own account between Jan. 21 and Dec. 9, 2006.

No one in the city suspected Dennis. It was a bank investigator who became suspicious and alerted police.

Tags: cash, police, stealing