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Optimising daily police patrol : towards better matching police supply and demand by directing police in space and time Ghent University
Een koerier weet bij aanvang van zijn ronde welke pakjes hij op welke adressen moet afleveren. Dit is niet het geval voor politie-inspecteurs van de afdeling Interventie. Bij aanvang van hun shift weten ze niet waar en wanneer een noodoproep zal binnenkomen, om welk type incident het zal gaan en waar de eenheid zich nadien moet positioneren om opnieuw een optimale regiodekking te garanderen. Bovendien maakt de combinatie van misdaadpreventie en ...
Social facets of police patrol provision : do minority neighborhoods receive more or less police presence? Ghent University
Police officers are faced with a myriad of tasks and social responsibilities while being on patrol duty. Besides responding to emergency calls and conducting crime preventative actions, their presence as well as absence is linked to the public’s feeling of safety and critical questions of procedural justice. Against this background, the spatial distribution of police presence is examined with a focus on the provision of police resources to ...
Presentation 'The police (occupational) culture in belgian capital city patrol units: assessing styles, meanings & patterns' Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This presentation elaborates on findings of a research focussing on the police occupational culture in several police patrol units located in the Belgian capital city. The main method is participational observation, combined with 'mini-interviews' with patrol officers; observing daily duties, asking questions about attitudes and routine behaviour. The police occupational culture is often depicted as a stress coping mechanism; merely reducing ...
Analysing the police patrol routing problem University of Antwerp Ghent University
Police patrol is a complex process. While on patrol, police officers must balance many intersecting responsibilities. Most notably, police must proactively patrol and prevent offenders from committing crimes but must also reactively respond to real-time incidents. Efficient patrol strategies are crucial to manage scarce police resources and minimize emergency response times. The objective of this review paper is to discuss solution methods that ...
Stochastic Models for Local Police Patrol and Intervention Activities (Stochastische modellen voor patrouillering en interventie activiteiten bij de lokale politie) KU Leuven
Verschillende stochastische modellen werden voorgesteld om de effectiviteit en efficiëntie van de patrouillerings- en interventiefunctie bij de Lokale Politie te analyseren en te verbeteren. Gevallenstudies geven aan hoe substantiële verbeteringen verkregen worden door sectorgrenzen te hertekenen, dispatchmechanismen aan te passen, patrouilleringspatronen te veranderen, dienstrichtlijnen te wijzigen,...zeker in België na recente reorganisaties. ...
What police patrol routing strategies can learn from routing and optimization strategies used by road assistance services and other economic models Ghent University
Danger is also what patrol officers make of it Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this paper, it will be argued that proactive policing and patrol actions are creative, timed, executed but concealed policing activities. Proactivity appears as an arranged, organised and meaningful cultural artefact. It involves rituals performed in an enacted or staged environment in which images of a dangerous environment, crime, suspiciousness of the population and an organisational context of an unstable ‘fire brigade’ patrol department ...