U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 

Audit Report

 

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

Grants to the Greenbrier County, West Virginia Sheriff's Department

 

GR-30-98-008

December 1998

 

 

Executive Summary

 

The Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of three grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), to the Greenbrier County, West Virginia Sheriffs Department (Department). The Department received a grant of $55,061 to hire 1 additional sworn police officer under the Funding Accelerated for Smaller Towns (FAST) program; $121,368 to hire 2 additional officers under the Universal Hiring Program (UHP); and $44,064 to hire 1 civilian and redeploy 1 officer under the Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE) program. The purpose of the additional officers is to enhance community policing efforts.

We found that the Department violated grant requirements as follows:

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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