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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Grants
to the Carlisle, South Carolina, Police Department

GR-40-99-015
September, 1999
Office of the Inspector General


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), to the Carlisle, South Carolina, Police Department (grantee). The grantee received a $180,387 grant, No. 96-UM-WX-0145, under the Universal Hiring Program (UHP) to hire three officers, and a $14,308 grant, No. 97-CM-WX-1192, under the Making Officers Redeployment Effective (MORE) program to redeploy 0.8 full-time equivalent (FTE). The purpose of the additional officers is to enhance community policing efforts.

In brief, our audit determined the grantee:

These items are discussed in the Findings and Recommendations section of the report. Our scope and methodology appear in Appendix II.