The Police Funding Formula: Does it Reflect London's Crime Management Needs?

Houpis, George; Littlechild, Michael; Gifford, Stephen

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“…This problem has been highlighted by Houpis et al (2001) To the authors knowledge, this is one of the first pieces of research, using techniques such as DEA, to actually establish the presence of powerful non-linearities in the relationship between crime levels and crime offences cleared. Furthermore, in showing that there is no obvious relationship between technical efficiency and crime levels, we are able to show that we have identified a genuine scale effect in policing rather than a problem of lower efficiency levels in larger BCUs (defined in terms of total crime incidents).…”

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Police Efficiency in Offences Cleared: An Analysis of English “Basic Command Units”

Drake

Simper

2005

International Review of Law and Economics

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The job of policing covers a wide range of activities including, traditional crime detection and punishment, and the non-traditional aspects such as community meetings. However, the major focus of policing is on crime detection and prevention.This paper specifically considers these functions with respect to Basic Command Units (BCUs) or 'precincts', and determines their relative efficiency in this key area using DEA and the little used stochastic distance frontier. Relative Efficiency is measured in the context of a 'pure production approach' relating the incidence of various crimes (inputs) to the corresponding clear offences (outputs). This type of efficiency ranking can also help in further analysing best practice in order to reduce crime and the fear of crime in many police forces. The powerful non-linearity established in this relationship has important implications for police resourcing and funding as highlighted by Houpis et al (2001)

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“…This type of efficiency ranking can also help in further analysing best practice in order to reduce crime and the fear of crime in many police forces. The powerful non-linearity established in this relationship has important implications for police resourcing and funding as highlighted by Houpis et al (2001) …”

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