Before designing a computer program for allocating police patrol cars by time and geography, a review was undertaken of …

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 …

--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 …

expected that knowledge of these optimal policies will have implications for the allocation of money between police, courts and …

Officers in police patrol cars operate in a complex stochastic environment. In addition to handling dispatcher … officers' time. In this paper we develop a spatially-oriented queueing-type model of a police patrol force that allows each of … police management decisions regarding patrol beat design, workload smoothing among officers, and reduction of neighborhood …