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Measuring Efficiency and Effectiveness in Policing: A Queensland Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Owen Hortz
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The interest in the evaluation of police work has been growing rapidly over the last eight years. The economic growth of the early 1980s has been replaced with the economic stringency of the 1990s. There has been an adoption of the private sector approach to evaluating public services. Value for money has never been more important, and all public services have been called to demonstrate efficiency in operation. Performance indicators have been developed for the police to aid in demonstrating this.

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Queensland Review , Volume 4 , Issue 2: Police Reform and the Criminal Justice Commission in Queensland edited by Tim Prenzler , October 1997 , pp. 27 - 35
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