Currently in Canada no satisfactory method exists which determines the number of police personnel required to "police" a given jurisdiction. Several procedures are available which deploy existing police human resources within a given area. Such procedures however, assume that the "proper" number of police persons are available for deployment to the jurisdiction. That is, sufficient police personnel are available to respond to any "call for service" without that call experiencing an unnecessary long wait in queue. The premise of this research is that an inadequate number of police personnel are available in some police jurisdictions and that calls do experience unnecessary queueing delays. It is further surmised that a reduction in the response delay, prompted by an assessment and reevaluation of the number of personnel, will improve police operational performance in that department. / Various steps are followed in the research. These are: (1) The identification, by quantitative means, of an optimum performing police jurisdiction from within a sample jurisdiction, (2) Identify the demographic/ecological characters which contribute to the crime situation for the optimum performing police jurisdiction, (3) Regress these characteristics into a factor relating police performance to a single police person, and, in turn, establish a standard for comparison; and, (4) Realign existing police persons to the "standard". / For the study it is assumed that the policing function will improve with a rational and objective approach to human resource allocation. Such an approach will allow for the availability of sufficient human resources to deal with any call for assistance promptly and efficiently by the police. Prompt and efficient responses to calls for service, it is surmised, will contribute to a perceived improved performance on the part of the citizenry. / The study was confined by the quality of the secondary data and the sampling and non-sampling error which existed within each data set. At the conclusion of this study it was possible to identify a standard of policing. This standard had direct application to determining the required number of human resources needed to provide an optimum level of police performance in a given police jurisdiction. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-02, Section: A, page: 0651. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75274 |
| Contributors | DALLEY, ANGUS FRANKLIN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 178 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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