It can be bad enough when you lose your car keys or sunglasses, but in the case of the San Diego Police Department, they're facing a slightly bigger issue.

They're trying to get to the bottom of how $1 million in seized cash and assets went missing.

Earlier this week, a local newspaper's watchdog group found that the funds were absorbed into the department during property seizures.  It also included monies confiscated from drug dealers at the time of their arrest.

The law requires that seized and forfeited assets be shared between local and state law enforcement agencies.

And despite the SDPD showing a closing 2010 treasury balance of more than $1,150,000, the opening balance for the following year was exactly $1 million short.

There is no paper trail to show where this money has gone, according to the reporter who wrote the story.

But the San Diego County Taxpayers Association said this could all be a very simple mistake. There's always the chance that someone didn't hit a number on their computer keyboard when they were entering the 2011 numbers into the system.

Mayor Kevin Faluconer said he's not taking any chances and has asked the city's comptroller to give the matter a closer look.