Cops don't admit NSW armoury theft failure IT'S too early to tell if system failures allowed a NSW police employee to misappropriate weaponry from a police armoury in Sydney, a senior officer says. A statewide manhunt for the man, 38, who works with firearms at the NSW police centre in Sydney, ended on Saturday when he handed himself into police. The police employee has been charged with a number of firearms offences including aggravated possession of firearms and unauthorised manufacture of firearms. Police have said a raid of the man's Berkeley Vale home uncovered firearms they believe were misappropriated from the Surry Hills centre. Speaking to reporters, Assistant Commissioner Peter Dein said the man did not apply for bail in Gosford local court on Sunday and will remain in custody. It was too early to say that the man was able to exploit failures in police systems to obtain the weapons, Asst Commissioner Dein said. "It's certainly too early," said Mr Dein, who has responsibility for the armoury. We need to look very carefully at what has been happening and look very carefully at what has been revealed as a result of this particular investigation. He said he was not prepared to say that police procedures had failed at the armoury. "It may well be the case that the current arrangements that we have at the police armoury are appropriate," he said. However he conceded there were "very serious" issues related to the police armoury, and that they were currently the subject of an internal review. "I can tell you very clearly that they are very serious issues that we are looking at," he told reporters. We have been looking at the armoury for some time at how it operates. He said the review was looking at the way the armoury contains and manages equipment and how people are employed there. He said he did not know when the review would be completed, but said it was being done "as quickly as possible." He stressed that there was no evidence that any other employees at the armoury were involved in the alleged misappropriation of weapons. He would not be drawn on whether the accused man had any links to organised crime. Detectives allegedly located firearms, firearm parts, ammunition of various caballeros, machining equipment and prohibited weapons at the man's home when it was searched.