Shape and Balance in Police Districting

Victor Bucarey (), Fernando Ordóñez () and Enrique Bassaletti
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Victor Bucarey: Universidad de Chile
Fernando Ordóñez: Universidad de Chile
Enrique Bassaletti: Carabineros de Chile

Chapter 14 in Applications of Location Analysis, 2015, pp 329-347 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Districting is a classic design problem when attempting to provide an efficient service to a geographically dispersed demand. There exists a natural trade-off between aggregation, which allows the pooling of resources, and individualization, where each individual demand has its own resources and response is as efficient as possible. Police and security providers are no strangers to this phenomenon. Having a single set of resources to satisfy the demand over an entire service area avoids the duplication of resources, coordination problems, and uneven workloads that can occur in districting. However, when the service area is large, service times at certain locations can exceed acceptable levels, making it more attractive to service this demand from distributed resources. Furthermore, districting allows for specialization of the resources to efficiently service a diverse demand in different areas. Such specialization causes additional complexity if managed from a centralized pool of resources. This creates the basic problem of separating a demand area into subregions to organize the service process.

Keywords: Balance Constraint; District Plan; Police Resource; Territory Planning; Compactness Compactness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20282-2_14

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