( CNN ) -- The U.S. State Department is unable to account for most of $ 1.2 billion in funding that it gave to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police , a government report said Tuesday . An International Police Liaison Officer hired by DynCorp stands near new Iraqi police recruits in Falluja , Iraq . `` The bottom line is that State ca n't account for where it went , '' said Glenn D. Furbish , who was involved in putting together the 20-page report for the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction ( SIGIR ) . The Department of State 's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs ( INL ) `` did not have the information needed to identify what DynCorp provided under the contract or how funds were spent , '' the report said . As a result , the audit agency announced it has suspended its oversight of the agency 's project until INL gathers the information . `` Their records are just not detailed , '' Furbish said Monday in a telephone interview . `` From an audit perspective , we 've identified the problem ; they 're working to rectify the problem . '' Though Iraqi police have indeed been trained and equipment has been provided under the contract , invoices and supporting paperwork submitted by DynCorp `` were in disarray , '' the report said . In addition , INL `` had not validated the accuracy '' of invoices received prior to last October , and `` INL does not know specifically what it received for most of the $ 1.2 billion in expenditures under its DynCorp contract for the Iraqi Police Training Program . '' The lack of controls `` created an environment vulnerable to waste and fraud , '' the report said . Furbish , an accountant by training who spent two years in Iraq , added , `` It 's like so much else that happened in Baghdad ... there was just a massive quantity of work and too few people in place to do it . They just essentially did not have the staff to monitor what was going on . `` Bills came in ; they paid the bills , but they do n't know what they paid for and they do n't know what they 've gotten . '' Furbish , who has carried out audits for the Government Accountability Office for three decades , said the projected time line of three to five years to rectify the problem `` is not atypical '' for U.S. projects carried out in Iraq since the ouster of President Saddam Hussein . `` Baghdad is its own arena , '' he said . `` Contract control has been a major shortcoming across the board . '' In addition to having too few properly trained people , problems arose from the difficulties inherent in traveling within Iraq and from `` the rush to get reconstruction activities under way before we actually had a full structure in place to manage them , '' he said . Asked whether the full structure is currently in place more than four years after the U.S.-led invasion , he said . `` It continues to be a problem . '' In a letter to SIGIR , INL Acting Assistant Secretary Elizabeth Verville said her agency has made `` significant progress in correcting past contract management problems '' and `` is dedicated to addressing our past contracting problems and systematically strengthening contract management and oversight . '' She said invoice processing delays will be reduced as staffing is beefed up in Baghdad . State Department spokeswoman Susan Pittman said a number of reforms have been made since January . `` We are committed to continuous improvement , '' she said . The Washington-based staff of four will soon be increased to 11 , and the Baghdad-based staff of five will be augmented to seven `` as soon as they all have their clearances , '' she said . Still , she acknowledged , it will take years to get the paperwork current . `` It is n't an easy process , '' she said . `` There is a huge need , a huge , urgent need and there were not enough people to be able to fill that void , '' she said . `` That is something that we are in the process of doing . '' Gregory Lagana , a spokesman for DynCorp , said the company 's work in Iraq is a `` really complex program . ... We buy weapons , body armor , vehicles , communications equipment -- that all belongs to the State Department . '' Sometimes , he said , `` it 's coded wrong or double-billed . We actually find a lot of that ourselves in the normal auditing process . '' Tuesday 's report is the second in a series of financial reviews ordered by Congress and carried out by SIGIR looking into large Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund projects . The first report , issued three months ago , criticized officials with the U.S. Agency for International Development for lack of oversight of their contract with Bechtel . Bechtel is a privately held , U.S. conglomerate of engineering , construction , and project management companies . The series of at least 10 reports will be finalized by spring , he said . E-mail to a friend .
Private contractor gets $ 1.2 billion from State department to train Iraqi police . Score: 6 A 20-page report says the accuracy of invoices had not been validated . The report is one of 10 ordered by Congress on Iraq reconstruction projects .