Evaluation of the operational efficiency of pacifying police units in the state of Rio de Janeiro

Autor: Igor Rosa Dias de Jesus, Fernanda Pinheiro Gomes, Lidia Angulo-Meza
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Revista Produção Online, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 448-464 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1676-1901
DOI: 10.14488/1676-1901.v14i2.1248
Popis: The Pacification Police Unit (UPP) is a new model for public security and policing, aimed at ensuring local security and, above all, reduce, or even, extinguish violent crime linked to drug trafficking, and approach people and police. The purpose of this article is measuring the operational efficiency of all UPPs installed in the state of Rio de Janeiro by the beginning of 2011 by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). For this, it was used the CCR model – input-oriented – developed by Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes, which allows an objective assessment of the overall efficiency, identifying the sources of inefficiencies and the needed targets to achieve the efficiency in each UPP. The results converge to a reduction of the amount of policemen in all communities out of the efficiency frontier.
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