Office of Community Oriented Policing Services 2009 Cops Hiring Recovery Program Grant Awarded to the Oakland Community College Department of Public Safety Pontiac, Michigan.

摘要

The Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP) grant number 2009-RK-WX-0454 in the amount of $204,468 awarded to the Oakland Community College (OCC), Department of Public Safety. The CHRP grants were designed to provide funding directly to agencies having primary law enforcement authority to create and preserve jobs and to increase their community policing capacity and crime-prevention efforts. The grants were to provide 100 percent funding for approved entry-level salaries and fringe benefits for 3 years for newly hired, full-time sworn officers (including filling existing unfunded vacancies), or to rehire officers who have been laid off or are scheduled to be laid off on a future date as a result of local budget cuts. The CHRP program was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act), which was a direct response to the economic crisis and had three immediate goals: (1) create new jobs and save existing ones, (2) spur economic activity and invest in longterm growth, and (3) foster unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency in government spending. One of the ways the Recovery Act intended to achieve those goals was by making additional funds available for federal contracts, grants, and loans.