The Department of Personnel and the Department of Parks and Recreation failed to scrutinize the qualifications of several employees hired in 2005 and 2006, ignored rules for making temporary appointments and neglected to put open positions out for competition, according to a new audit.

The report from Inspector General Charles Willoughby stems from the employment of five people at DPR between March 2005 and May 2006, when the agency was directed by Kimberley Flowers under Mayor Anthony Williams. Despite the audit’s specific targets, the problems listed “have significant system-wide implications at DCOP,” the report states, from insufficient policies addressing qualification reviews to a lack of human resource training.