Performance measurement of police forces at the local level: A non-parametric mathematical programming approach

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2013.08.061 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Gosarjeva Ulica 5, 1000 Ljubljan, Slovenia. Tel.: +386 1 580 55 48; fax: +386 1 580 55 21. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Aristovnik). 1 The state allocates a relatively large amount of budget funding t operations (e.g., in 2010 the Republic of Slovenia allocated about EUR 33 to the police, accounting for 3.1% of total budget expenditure) and a large public employees work in the police (i.e., 8989 employees, accounting for state administration staff in Slovenia in 2010). Aleksander Aristovnik ⇑, Janko Seljak, Jernej Mencinger