Assessing the Performance of Municipal Police Services Using Data Envelopment Analysis: An Exploratory Study

Abstract:The assessment of the impact of European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) on Portuguese local government and which factors determine it is important given the magnitude of funds involved. As part of this larger question, this paper considers whether the holistic sustainability of local authorities-as measured by a Council Sustainability Index-can influence the impact of ESIF on the performance of Portuguese councils and which factors best explain these performance differences. Using a geometric distance function jointly with the Hicks-Moorsteen index, we investigate and present a conclusion on the differential impact of ESIF on sustainable and non-sustainable Portuguese councils over the period 2000 to 2014. Our findings also suggest that ESIF should continue fostering economic and social development at the local level regardless of council size or regional location since overall development will flow from this economic and social structural adjustment strategy.

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“…% Output-(Health) doctors per 1000 inhabitants [14,54] Number of doctors divided by a thousand residents. No…”

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Municipal Sustainability Influence by European Union Investment Programs on the Portuguese Local Government

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“…Neely et al (2005) state that performance measurement system as the sets of metric used to quantify both the efficiency and effectiveness of action [47]. Nyhan and Martin (1999) defined the performance measurement as "The regular collection and reporting of information about the efficiency, quality and effectiveness of governmental programs" [48]. Performance measurement can be divided in 4 categories: input, output, efficiency and effectiveness [49].…”

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Combining Balanced Scorecard and Data Envelopment Analysis to Design Performance Measurement for Supply Chain Actor and Regulator: A Case Study in Innovative Product in Indonesia

Kusrini

Subagyo

Masruroh

2015

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

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Abstract. This research is a sequel of the authors' earlier conducted researches in the fields of identifying the key performance indicator for actors and regulators. In the previous study, authors proposed a model based on Balanced Scorecard perspective, by integrating process based on SCOR into the internal business processes and incorporated the role of regulators in each perspective. This model referred as B-S-Rc model (Balanced Scorecard-SCOR-Regulator contribution). The weakness of this model is it has no standard methodology and the inability to provide a benchmark. The objective of the present study is developing a model to overcome the shortcomings of the B-S-Rc, by combining the B-S -Rc with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This integrated model is validated on supply chain's SME and regulators of innovative products in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is found that the combination of BS-Rc-DEA provides information that enables benchmarking to overcome the weaknesses of B-S-Rc model.

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“…DEA has been used for measuring the efficiency and productivity of police in a number of studies (Thanassoulis 1995;Carrington et al 1997;Nyhan and Martin 1999;Sun 2002;Diez-Ticio and Mancebon 2002;Drake and Simper 2000, 2001, 2003a,b, 2004, 2005aVerma and Gavirneni 2006;Goltz 2008;Gorman and Ruggiero 2008;García-Sánchez 2007, 2009Wu et al 2010, García-Sánchez et al 2011aGarcía-Sánchez et al, 2011, 2013. Most of these studies have the single objective of measuring technical efficiency using an input oriented efficiency measure and are limited by the consideration of a single time period.…”

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Does modernization improve performance: evidence from Indian police

Kumar

Kumar²

2013

Eur J Law Econ

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This paper aims to measure the role of police modernization scheme in its performance in crime repression. We use output distance function as an analytical tool and estimate it using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) framework in a 'single stage'. We find that the police modernization scheme is helping the state police departments in enhancing their performance, i.e., the police departments which have more modern communication equipments and which are spending more money on the training of their police personnel are doing better relative to the others. The police density is found to be one of the major determinants of its efficiency along with the factors that create more social cohesion. The total factor productivity (TFP) is governed by the catch-up effect which is worsening over time though the technological progress has been observed in most of the states.JEL Classification: H83, K42, D61

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Assessing the Performance of Municipal Police Services Using Data Envelopment Analysis: An Exploratory Study

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Municipal Sustainability Influence by European Union Investment Programs on the Portuguese Local Government

Municipal Sustainability Influence by European Union Investment Programs on the Portuguese Local Government

Combining Balanced Scorecard and Data Envelopment Analysis to Design Performance Measurement for Supply Chain Actor and Regulator: A Case Study in Innovative Product in Indonesia

Does modernization improve performance: evidence from Indian police

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