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An Assessment of Police Officers’ Perception of Hotspots: What Can Be Done to Improve Officer’s Situational Awareness?

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Ilijazi, Venezija
Milić, Nenad
Milidragović, Dragan
Popović, Brankica
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Abstract
The idea behind patrol activity is that police officers should be the persons best acquainted with the events and people in their patrol area. This implies that they should have access to relevant data and information (e.g., where and how to pay attention, when and how crimes are committed) in order to effectively perform their police duties. To what extent their perceptions of the places prone to crime (hotspots) are accurate and what the implications are for police efficiency if they are incorrect is an important question for law enforcement officials. This paper presents the results of a study on police practice in Serbia. The study was conducted on a sample of 54 police officers and aimed to determine the accuracy of the perception of residential burglary hotspots and to evaluate the ways police officers are informed about crimes. The results of the study have shown that the situational awareness of police officers is not at a desired level, with ineffective dissemination of releva...nt data and information as one of the possible reasons.

Keywords:
police / crime analysis / GIS / residential burglaries / spatial perception / crime mapping
Source:
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019, 8, 6, 260-
Publisher:
  • Basel : MDPI
Funding / projects:
  • Development of Institutional Capacities, Standards and Procedures for Fighting Organized Crime and Terrorism in Climate of International Integrations (RS-179045)
  • New Information Technologies for Analytical Decision Making Based on Experiment Observation and their Application in Biological, Economic and Sociological Systems (RS-44007)

DOI: 10.3390/ijgi8060260

ISSN: 2220-9964

WoS: 000475307000018

Scopus: 2-s2.0-85066839240
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abstract = "The idea behind patrol activity is that police officers should be the persons best acquainted with the events and people in their patrol area. This implies that they should have access to relevant data and information (e.g., where and how to pay attention, when and how crimes are committed) in order to effectively perform their police duties. To what extent their perceptions of the places prone to crime (hotspots) are accurate and what the implications are for police efficiency if they are incorrect is an important question for law enforcement officials. This paper presents the results of a study on police practice in Serbia. The study was conducted on a sample of 54 police officers and aimed to determine the accuracy of the perception of residential burglary hotspots and to evaluate the ways police officers are informed about crimes. The results of the study have shown that the situational awareness of police officers is not at a desired level, with ineffective dissemination of relevant data and information as one of the possible reasons.",
publisher = "Basel : MDPI",
journal = "ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information",
title = "An Assessment of Police Officers’ Perception of Hotspots: What Can Be Done to Improve Officer’s Situational Awareness?",
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Ilijazi, V., Milić, N., Milidragović, D.,& Popović, B.. (2019). An Assessment of Police Officers’ Perception of Hotspots: What Can Be Done to Improve Officer’s Situational Awareness?. in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Basel : MDPI., 8(6), 260.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8060260
Ilijazi V, Milić N, Milidragović D, Popović B. An Assessment of Police Officers’ Perception of Hotspots: What Can Be Done to Improve Officer’s Situational Awareness?. in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2019;8(6):260.
doi:10.3390/ijgi8060260 .
Ilijazi, Venezija, Milić, Nenad, Milidragović, Dragan, Popović, Brankica, "An Assessment of Police Officers’ Perception of Hotspots: What Can Be Done to Improve Officer’s Situational Awareness?" in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8, no. 6 (2019):260,
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8060260 . .

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