Evaluation of the operational efficiency of pacifying police units in the state of Rio de Janeiro

Authors

  • Igor Rosa Dias de Jesus Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) / Empresa Brasileira de Pesquia Agropecuária (EMBRAPA)
  • Fernanda Pinheiro Gomes Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
  • Lidia Angulo-Meza Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14488/1676-1901.v14i2.1248

Keywords:

UPP. Pacification Police Unit. DEA. Efficiency. Public Safety.

Abstract

The Pacification Police Unit (UPP) is a new model for public security and policing, aimed at ensuring local security and, above all, reduce, or even, extinguish violent crime linked to drug trafficking, and approach people and police. The purpose of this article is measuring the operational efficiency of all UPPs installed in the state of Rio de Janeiro by the beginning of 2011 by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). For this, it was used the CCR model – input-oriented – developed by Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes, which allows an objective assessment of the overall efficiency, identifying the sources of inefficiencies and the needed targets to achieve the efficiency in each UPP. The results converge to a reduction of the amount of policemen in all communities out of the efficiency frontier.

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Author Biographies

Igor Rosa Dias de Jesus, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) / Empresa Brasileira de Pesquia Agropecuária (EMBRAPA)

Doutorando em Engenharia de Produção na UFF e Analista de Transferência de Tecnologia na Embrapa Solos.

Fernanda Pinheiro Gomes, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Mestranda em Engenharia de Produção na UFF

Lidia Angulo-Meza, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Professora do Departamento de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção da UFF

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Published

2014-05-15

How to Cite

Jesus, I. R. D. de, Gomes, F. P., & Angulo-Meza, L. (2014). Evaluation of the operational efficiency of pacifying police units in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Revista Produção Online, 14(2), 448–464. https://doi.org/10.14488/1676-1901.v14i2.1248

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Papers

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