Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Grants
to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police

Audit Report GR-30-01-002
December 29, 2000
Office of the Inspector General


Executive Summary

The Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of grants awarded by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police (DNRP). The purpose of the grants was to enhance community policing. The DNRP was awarded a total of $1,939,425 to hire 23 new police officers and redeploy the equivalent of 9.2 existing full-time officers from administrative duties to community policing.

We reviewed the DNRP's compliance with eight essential grant conditions. We found weaknesses in the areas identified below. As a result, we question $288,737 and recommend an additional $300,000 be put to better use. 1

These items are discussed in greater detail in the Findings and Recommendations section of the report. Our audit objectives, scope and methodology appear in Appendix I.


Footnotes

  1. The Inspector General Act of 1988 contains our reporting requirements for questioned costs and funds to better use. However, not all of our findings are dollar-related. See Appendix III for a breakout of our dollar-related findings and definitions of questioned costs and funds to better use.