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Measuring The Relative Effıciency Of City Police Departments In Turkey By Using Data Envelopment Analysis

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  • Polis Bilimleri Dergisi

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  • 2010

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The efficiency of the police service has been called into question for decades in Turkey. Similarly, many researchers and citizens have reservations concerning the effectiveness of police resource allocation. It is unknown as to how efficient each department is in their use of resources because there are no set performance evaluation systems in place for each police department. This paper investigates the relative efficiency of all local police departments in Turkey via Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The goal was to identify good management practices in the police departments by evaluating cost-efficiency within a DEA framework. This research used the number of sworn police personnel, the total expenditures of police departments, and the number of recorded crimes as input data. Outputs were the number of arrests and the number of cleared cases. The results showed that only 10 out of 81 police departments are 100% efficient. However, most of the efficiency scores of police departments were very close to 100, and interestingly, almost all departments had efficiency scores above 70%. Notably, none of the local police departments in Turkey had efficiency scores of less than 50%.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Türkiye’de polislik hizmetlerinin etkililiği yıllardır sorgulanmaktadır. Polis örgütlerine tahsis edilen kaynaklarının kullanımı ve dağıtımı da birçok vatandaş ve araştırmacı tarafından tartışılmaktadır. Emniyet müdürlüklerinin performanslarını değerlendirecek bir sistem olmadığı için, her emniyet müdürlüğünün kaynaklarını ne kadar etkili kullandığı bilinmemektedir. Bu araştırma, Veri Zarflama Analizi (VZA) kullanarak emniyet müdürlüklerinin karşılaştırmalı olarak etkili yönetilmesini sorgulamaktadır. Bu çalışmada amaç, VZA çerçevesinde, harcama-etkililik (veya faydamaliyet) analizi yaparak emniyet müdürlüklerinde iyi yönetim uygulamalarını tespit etmektir. Emniyet hizmetleri personel sayısı, emniyet müdürlüklerinin harcamaları ve kaydedilen suç sayısı girdi olarak kullanılmakta iken; gözaltı sayısı ve çözülen suç olaylarının sayısı çıktı olarak kullanılmaktadır. 81 emniyet müdürlüğünden 10 tanesinin etkili yönetildiği bulunmuştur (100%). Buna rağmen, birçok emniyet müdürlüğünün etkililik skorları 100’e oldukça yakındır. İlginç olarak, hemen hemen bütün polis müdürlüklerinin etkililik skorları yüzde 70’in üzerindedir. Emniyet müdürlüklerinin etkililik skorlarının yüzde 50’den az olmaması dikkat çekicidir.
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