Results of a survey of police services, one of the five service areas for which performance analyses were made for 35 New York State jurisdictions. Performance measurements are discussed in terms of the environment (square miles of area protected, density of population, street miles and traffic accidents); resources (total budget, expense budget, personal services, total budgeted positions, sworn uniform personnel), civilians, total vehicles, patrol cars, number of precinct station houses; activities (miles patrolled by car, foot patrol, number assigned to foot patrol, total arrests, cases cleared, summonses issued, property recovered); outputs (crime-related, non-emergency, emergency and traffic responses); operational efficiency (sworn uniformed personnel doing administrative work, assigned to street patrol, on street patrol at 10 pm, roll call, wash-up, sick days, one-man patrol cars as of total patrol); efficiency (total responses and arrests per number on street patrol; cases cleared, summonses issued and property recovered per sworn officer; budget per response, per arrest); quality; effectiveness.


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    Title :

    Performance Workshops - Police Services in New York State


    Publication date :

    1978


    Size :

    28 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English