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B-160759 1 (1971-07-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkzt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -n -4, COMPTROLLER GENERAL 0 ,NIT STA REEWASHINGTO .C48 LM090551 Dear Mr. Chairman: By letter dated March 4, 1971, the Chairman of the Legal and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee requested that the General Accounting Office (GAO) furnish comments and opinions on (1) the capability of the Audit and Inspection Division, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAN), Department of Justice, to provide adequate audit coverage of certain grants and contracts, (2) the appropriateness of this audit staff and whfhbierIts functions were inconsistent with our views on internal auditing, (3) the functional responsibilities of the Department's centralized Office of Internal Audit over the operations of the LEAA audit staff, and (4) the appropriate- ness and legality of the Department's method of staffing and financing its Office of Internal Audit. LEAA, created by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, has the responsibility of providing fi- nancial and technical assistance to State and local govern- ments to improve their criminal justice systems; i.e., police, courts, and corrections. The program is designed to reduce crime through several means, including the award of --planning grants to State planning agencies (SPAs) to enable them to develop statewide comprehensive criminal justice plans and to administer implementation of the plans; --block action grants on the basis of population to the SPAs for subgranting to State agencies, cities, and counties for carrying out the programs described in the comprehensive plans; --discretionary action grants, at LEAA's discretion, to State and local units of government to help modernize police departments, the courts, and corrections sys- tems; --technical assistance contracts to Federal Government agencies and other organizations and to private 50 TH ANNIVERSARY 1911 1)Q~s

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