NCJ Number
138700
Journal
Police Journal Volume: 65 Issue: 3 Dated: (July-September 1992) Pages: 200-208
Date Published
1992
Length
9 pages
Annotation
The Police Monitor (PM) used by the Dutch Police is one of a range of instruments designed to provide external policy information for police planning.
Abstract
The PM questionnaire measures various relevant aspects of police work; computer-assisted telephone interviewing is used for the fieldwork. The major fields in which the PM gathers policy information are workload information (victimization, fear of crime, number of police contacts); reporting behavior (public in general and victims); evaluation of police performance; and police task priority. Together the following instruments will form the Public Safety Monitor: the Crime Prevention Monitor, the Business and Public Organizations Safety Monitor, the Tourist and Community Safety Monitor, and State-Regulation Safety Monitor. PM is one of the instruments that can be used to describe the outcomes of police policy. Police management responsible for the reorganization process have received PM with enthusiasm. The two Dutch ministries that govern the police are planning to study the feasibility of a central database that will contain the findings of all PM studies conducted in The Netherlands. The various applications of such a database would be policy planning within police forces, policy planning within future regional police forces, policy planning at the national level, ministry allocation of personnel and finance among the various police forces, and evaluation of outcomes of various police forces. 4 tables