U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 

Audit Report

 

Community Oriented Policing Services

AHEAD and UHP

Grants to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Police Department

Grant Number 95CCWX0408

 

Report Number GR-70-97-004

 

August 1997

 

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

 

The Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Police Department. Philadelphia received an initial $11,475,000 grant under the Accelerated Hiring, Education, and Deployment (AHEAD) program to hire or rehire 153 additional sworn police officers. In addition, the City received a $30,000,000 COPS Universal Hiring Program (UHP) Supplemental Award for 400 officers.

The Philadelphia Police Department properly managed some aspects of the COPS grants:

However, Philadelphia violated some grant conditions:

These items are discussed in the Findings and Recommendations section of the report. Our scope and methodology appear in Appendix II.

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