Influence of impact munition on police units engagement costs

Abstract

The paper offers a comparative analysisof alternatives in performing police operations, which differ from each other iby the desision to implement impact munitions or not. The criteria used for the evaluation of the alternatives validity are the basic economic indices: effectiveness, cost, efficiency, time minimisation and reliability in achieving the optimisation. With the method of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), the options of police operations are compared separately by the stated criteria. It was concluded that the alternative which anticipates the use of impact munitions during the police operations proved to be economically more valid