Hundreds of documents including police reports, internal investigations of officers and district attorneys files have apparently been sitting in an unsecured and unoccupied former Fifth District Police Station for some time.

An Eyewitness News crew, doing a story on the disrepair of police stations more than two and a half years after Katrina, found the files in the station and the front and back doors of the facility unlocked.

“It’s disturbing, truly disturbing,” said Rafael Goyeneche of the Metropolitan Crime Commission. “From a security standpoint, you have potentially sensitive files that are here, anybody can walk in off the street and obtain these things.”

New Orleans Police issued a press release saying that the station had been burglarized after being informed by Eyewitness News that the building was no secured.

Spokesman Bob Young said that the building was locked up just a week ago.

"It was locked and secured last Friday by the commander of the Fifth District and when she was notified by the superintendent she observed the door had been broken into," he said.

Among the documents seen by the Eyewitness News crew were criminal reports of theft and attempted murder and internal investigations into officers that include a long range of allegations, including sexual harassment to excessive force.”

“This is information important to the police department in trying to identify potential problem officers, and it’s just been left here,” said Goyeneche.

Police Superintendent Warren Riley said the files should have been removed by now, but, ‘There is certainly nothing in there that is covert or secretive investigations. Anything that is there is public record.’

When asked why some of the documents were stamped, “Confidential,” Riley responded.

“Because it says confidential on it doesn’t mean it’s for police use only.”

Some of the files found in the building were from the district attorney’s office, a source of concern, according to District Attorney Keeva Landrum.