U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 

Audit Report

 

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

Grants to the Fauquier County, Virginia Sheriff's Department

 

GR-30-98-009

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 Fauquier County, Virginia Sheriffs Office (the Sheriffs Office). The Sheriffs Office received grants of: $70,865 to hire 1 officer under the Funding Accelerated for Smaller Towns (FAST) program; $399,755 to hire 5 officers under the Universal Hiring Program (UHP); and $134,055 under the Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE) program to hire 2 civilians and to purchase equipment and technology. The purpose of the additional officers, civilians, equipment and technology is to enhance community policing efforts.

Our audit determined that:

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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