Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative Reimbursement Program

Audit Report 08-22
March 2008
Office of the Inspector General


Appendix I
Objectives, Scope, and Methodology

The objectives of the audit were to: (1) evaluate OJP’s administration and management of SWBPI reimbursements; (2) identify additional federal programs with overlapping objectives; and (3) determine if SWBPI reimbursement requests submitted by eligible jurisdictions are allowable, supported, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and terms and conditions of the SWBPI program.

We conducted our audit in accordance with Government Auditing Standards. We included such tests as were necessary to accomplish the audit objectives. The audit generally covered, but is not limited to, SWBPI reimbursements received during the period FYs 2002 through 2006. Audit work was conducted at OJP, ONDCP, ATF, DEA, FBI, EOUSA and the following selected SWBPI recipients: (1) New Mexico DPS; (2) Yuma County, Arizona; (3) Maricopa County, Arizona; (4) El Paso County, Texas; (5) San Diego, California; (6) Brooks County, Texas; and (7)  San Francisco, California.48

To evaluate the effectiveness of OJP’s administration and oversight over SWBPI reimbursements, we assessed the processes used by OJP for reviewing and approving applications, reimbursing funds, and monitoring recipients. Specifically, we:

To identify any potential duplicate funding sources, we:

To determine if SWBPI reimbursements are allowable, supported, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and terms and conditions of the SWBPI program, we:

We included the work performed in prior OIG SWBPI audits in our assessment of the allowability of cases reimbursed.



Footnotes
  1. Our audit of New Mexico only included SWBPI funding received for the period October 2003 to March 2005 and it included the 2nd, 3rd and 11th judicial districts of the New Mexico DPS.



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