Beyond Crime Counts: Introducing the Police Response Effort Index - Te Puna Haumaru Seminar Series
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Te Puna Haumaru | New Zealand Institute for Security & Crime Science was established at the University of Waikato in 2017. Their research aims to reduce crime and increase security through multi-disciplinary, evidence-based research.
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Responding to crime and other demands for police service requires measuring these in a way that accounts for wide variations in types of crime and incidents—not all are equal, yet have traditionally been counted equally. Crime Harm Indices (CHIs) have been increasingly adopted in recent years to help factor in differences between crime types, based on the amount of harm they cause. But CHIs are crime specific and don’t tell the whole demand story.
This webinar introduces a complementary tool to help factor in differences between crime and other demand types. The Police Response Effort Index (PREI) differentiates crime and demand types by the amount of effort (time) it takes police in responding to them. This seminar describes the PREI and presents some examples of how it can be used to provide additional insights into crime and demand
Please direct all questions to the organiser: nziscs@waikato.ac.nz.
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