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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Grants
to the Umatilla Tribal Police Department, Oregon

GR-90-01-003
January 2001
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 Umatilla Tribal Police Department (UTPD). The purpose of the grants is to enhance community policing. The UTPD was awarded a total of $600,000 to hire eight police officers.

We reviewed the UTPD's compliance with seven essential grant conditions. We found the grantee's budgeting, hiring, source of matching funds, retention efforts, and community policing activities to be acceptable. However, we found weaknesses in two areas and question $48,300, as identified below. 8

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.


Footnotes

  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.