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

• Main Authors: Igor Rosa Dias de Jesus, Fernanda Pinheiro Gomes, Lidia Angulo-Meza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2014-05-01
• Series: Revista Produção Online
• Subjects: UPP. Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora. DEA. Eficiência. Segurança Pública.
• Online Access: http://producaoonline.org.br/rpo/article/view/1248

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.