The document was released to the Otago Daily Times on Wednesday, following an Official Information Act request for the police investigation report into the council's decade-long, $1.5 million fraud.
In it, police said the council had not supplied information about former Citifleet team leader Brent Bachop's use of council credit and fuel cards, despite requests.
However, council chief executive Dr Sue Bidrose took issue with the claims yesterday, saying the report was ''not the final word'' on the Citifleet investigation.
The report had been signed off on December 2 last year, but Dr Bidrose said council staff had met police since then to discuss further work on the case.
That included discussing the need for credit and fuel card information, which all parties, including police, eventually agreed was not necessary, she said.
That was because credit card information had already been ''painstakingly'' scrutinised by Deloitte, which found no evidence of fraud, while fuel cards showed only pin numbers, and not who used them, she said.
Dr Bidrose said the wording of the police report suggested the council had not co-operated.
That was ''an error of omission, if you like, because we were [co-operating]''.
''I had conversations [with police] to say `have you got everything you need from us?' and they always had.''
The release of the outdated report triggered allegations online yesterday, and concern from some city councillors after it was circulated to them for the first time.
Mayor Dave Cull said its contents ''raised some concerns, and I'm not the only one who has specifically asked for an explanation''.
''It concerns me if they give a false impression.''
The ODT understands the report's author, Detective Matt Preece, of Dunedin CIB, no longer works for police, but questions about his departure were not answered yesterday.
A police spokesman confirmed the report released on Wednesday was not the final report into Citifleet, but was unable to respond to other ODT questions by last night.
Instead, Otago coastal area commander Inspector Jason Guthrie, in a written statement, would only say the outdated report was ''a snap shot of the investigation at the time it was written''.
It was released to other media after being ''specifically'' requested, and then to the ODT in response to a request for the ''police Citifleet report released under OIA''.
Police would answer other questions about the Citifleet report ''more fully in due course'', he added.
Dr Bidrose said police had, nevertheless, done a ''very good and very thorough investigation'' despite the release of the outdated report.
She accepted the police conclusion nobody else could be charged with a crime, but was scathing of the individuals' behaviour.
''There are some people who are walking around in Dunedin that should be ashamed of themselves.
''There's some people mentioned in this report who ... I struggle to believe did not know that they were working with someone who was defrauding the ratepayers of Dunedin.
''And they got away with it.''
