The efficiency of police stations in the city of Ankara: an application of data envelopment analysis

Akdogan, Huseyin

doi:10.1108/13639511211215432

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“…DEA has been very popular in measuring police efficiency worldwide, see e.g., in Turkey (Akdogan, 2012), the UK (Carrington et al, 1997;Thanassoulis, 1995;…”

Section: Organizational Structure Of Policementioning

confidence: 99%

“…DEA does not set a priori specification such as the normal distribution of data (Min et al, 2008;Aksezer, 2016). Owing to its capability to handle multiple inputs and outputs, DEA is particularly suited for measuring different facets of police efficiency (Akdogan, 2012;Verma and Gavirneni, 2006).…”

Section: Dea Model Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the adequate availability of investigators facilitates effective criminal investigation, an inadequate number of investigators adversely affect crime investigation and crime clearance rate. Therefore, in line with other studies (Akdogan, 2012;Gorman and Ruggiero, 2008) "number of investigators" is selected as an input variable for this study. The job of investigators is facilitated by support staff, including IT, legal and forensic experts, logistic service providers and office administration.…”

Section: Input and Output Variables Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the enormous resources and time consumed in producing this much documentation, the significance of this activity is further highlighted. Thus, based on this critical role "the number of processed judicial and managerial documents" is chosen as a key output for this study (Akdogan, 2012).…”

Section: Input and Output Variables Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Developing a structured framework for measuring police efficiency

Asif

Shahzad

Awan

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IJQRM

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Purpose The growing emphasis on “managerialism” in police and the pressure to employ scientific methods of performance measurement warrants the need for a structured framework. The scope of police duties is large as it relates to several preventive and corrective action related to public safety and crime management. A challenge in measuring police performance is to take into consideration a range of variables that can potentially influence performance. The purpose of this paper is to provide a structured framework for measuring different facets of police efficiency, which is especially useful in managerial decision making. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses data envelopment analysis and discusses efficiency measurement in terms of the technical, managerial and scale efficiency, resources utilization patterns, returns-to-scale analysis and measurement of super-efficiency. The application of framework is based on the data of the police stations of Lahore, a large metropolitan city in Pakistan. Findings The paper shows the application of different measures of efficiency in making decisions pertaining resources allocation, prioritizing areas for improvement and identifying benchmarks for performance improvement. Different measures of efficiency are presented in the form of a structured framework. Practical implications Managers can use this framework to glean rich insights into different types of efficiency and sources of inefficiency. Further, a discussion of variables provided in this paper can be especially useful in determining trade-offs during the selection of inputs and outputs. Originality/value The key contribution of this paper is in providing a multifaceted efficiency measurement framework, that is capable of providing rich insights into the sources of inefficiency and helps scientific decision making. To the best of our knowledge, such a multifaceted approach has not been provided in previous publications.

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“…DEA has been very popular in measuring police efficiency worldwide, see e.g., in Turkey (Akdogan, 2012), the UK (Carrington et al, 1997;Thanassoulis, 1995;…”

Section: Organizational Structure Of Policementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dea Model Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Input and Output Variables Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Input and Output Variables Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Property misdemeanors such as burglaries, thefts, robberies, raids, street mugging, vehicle robberies, and violent liferelated crimes are typical inputs found in many other performance evaluations e.g. Sun (2002), Barros (2007), Agdokan (2012), Drake & Simper (2000; and Hadad, Keren & Hanani (2015).…”

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A General Framework of Crime Determination and the Controversial Use of Crime in the Efficiency Analysis

Nepomuceno¹

2020

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Using crime as production input or output has been reported in many assessments of police efficiency. This discussion Preprint evaluates this controversial use based on a general framework of crime and comments from the scientific literature. The complete assessment and discussion of this paper can be accessed in Nepomuceno et al. (2020) "Exogenous Crimes and the Assessment of Public Safety Efficiency and Effectiveness", Annals of Operations Research.

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