--the design of service areas for police mobile units. Estimates of the performance of alternative designs are given by existing … evaluated according to the preferences for efficiency and equality of service of three interest groups: citizens, police, and …

A computer program has been designed for specifying the number of police patrol cars that should be on duty in each …

We consider a multi-priority, N-server, Poisson arrival, nonpreemptive queue, motivated by police applications. The …

study examines model use over a longer time frame, and draws some policy implications. A survey was taken of 17 police … impact on the state of police patrol allocation. PCAM was found to be operational in six departments, and fully …

assumed that Sethi's concave thief, i.e., a risk-averter, plays against the police, whose objective function incorporates … the case in Sethi's model) but also by the instrumental variable of the police, namely its rate of law enforcement. Our … police increases monotonically whereas for the Nash-optimal pilfering rate three cases may be characterized in which increase …

In many cities, a substantial fraction of calls for police service require more than one patrol car. We compare Green …

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 …

How many patrol cars staffed with a single police officer are needed to provide equivalent police service to an … performance characteristic considered. The analysis also raised issues related to the safety of police officers in one …