Delayed robbery investigation in Bakersfield

Bakersfield Now reports that an apparent error in a Kern County Sheriffs Office new computer system is blamed for a delayed investigation of a robbery.

The residents called the sheriff’s office and filed a report in January when the robbery took place, but nothing was ever followed up on. Sr. Deputy Michael Whorf says that’s because there was an error in a new computer system.

Sheriff’s officials have now put a detective on the case. Officials are also checking for other glitches in the system and say they are confident in the new way of handling reports.

The residents are probably glad that they followed up with the police regarding the status of the investigation. This does make one wonder though how many other cases were affected here and how often police investigations are in general prevented due to issues like this.