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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Grants
to the Osage Tribe of Oklahoma

GR-80-00-012
May 22, 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 (COPS) to the Osage Tribe of Oklahoma (Tribe). The purpose of the grants is to enhance community policing. The Tribe was awarded a total of $287,896 to hire three new police officers and redeploy the equivalent of 1.2 full-time equivalent (FTE) officers from administrative duties to community policing.

We reviewed the Tribe's compliance with eight essential grant conditions. We found the Tribe did not comply with five conditions: local matching funds, reimbursement requests, planning for retention, officer redeployment, and periodic status reporting.

In addition to not complying with five of the grant conditions, we found weakness in other areas as identified on the following page. As a result, we question $80,653 and recommend an additional $10,944 be put to better use. 1

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


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