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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Grant
to the Glendale Police Department Arizona

GR-90-01-001
October 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 to the Glendale Police Department (GPD), Arizona. The purpose of the grants is to enhance community policing. The GPD was awarded a total of $4,556,602 to hire 54 new police officers and redeploy the equivalent of 9.6 existing full-time officers from administrative duties to community policing.

We reviewed the GPD's compliance with eight essential grant conditions, and found weaknesses in the areas of redeployment and status reporting. As a result, we question $48,754 and recommend $7,410 be put to better use, as identified below. 1

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


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