Police patrol districting method and simulation evaluation using agent-based model & GIS

Evaluation of Police Patrol Patterns

The Desktop Hypercube is an interactive tool designed to help planners improve police services without additional response units (or to maintain a constant level of service with fewer response units). It calculates a number of variables, including travel times, workloads, and preventive patrol frequencies, thus giving planners the information they need to achieve various goals, such as reductio...

Simulation Combined Approach to Police Patrol Services Staffing

Motivated by the squeeze on public service expenditure, staffing is an important issue for service systems, which are required to maintain or even improve their service levels in order to meet general public demand. This paper considers Police Patrol Service Systems (PPSSs) where staffing issues are extremely serious and important because they have an impact on service costs, quality and public...

Agent-based simulation with iTasks for navy patrol vessels

Designing Optimal Police Patrol Districts

A police car, manned round the clock by two officers, costs at least $300,000 annually. With efficient management of this resource, police services can be improved without raising taxes. This ArcView extension allows police planners to design patrol districts and to evaluate them by displaying various performance measures. The extension uses a spatially distributed queuing system (the Larson Hy...

A Multiple Dispatch Queueing Model of Police Patrol Operations*

One of the primary concerns of urban police departments is the effective use of patrol cars. In large cities, police assigned to patrol cars typically account for more than 50% of total police manpower and their allocation has become particularly crucial in light of recent fiscal cutbacks. The police patrol system is a complex multi-server queueing system, and recently many urban police departm...