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Location of chief police officers in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, using OCBA

Location of chief police officers in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, using OCBA
Location of chief police officers in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, using OCBA

Over the past few decades, the escalation of violence made public security take centre stage on the Brazilian political and social agenda. This paper focuses on the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, one of the most violent states in Brazil according to national indexes. We study a location problem originating from the interaction between different police institutions. We aim at determining the location of chief civil police officers responsible for crime registration and investigation. This work applies Discrete Event Simulation (DES) in order to model the reporting process of the police when criminal activity happens. The DES model is used as a basis for an Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (OCBA) algorithm in order to improve the overall simulation efficiency for finding the best locations. Our numerical experiments show that the proposed framework could potentially help increase the operational efficiency of police forces in Pernambuco's cities.

Location problem, Public security, Simulation-optimisation
162-171
Operational Research Society
Wei, Yifu
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Lamas-Fernandez, Carlos
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Coutinho, Walton P.
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Currie, Christine
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Currie, Christine
Rhodes-Leader, Luke
Wei, Yifu
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Lamas-Fernandez, Carlos
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Coutinho, Walton P.
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Currie, Christine
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Currie, Christine
Rhodes-Leader, Luke

Wei, Yifu, Lamas-Fernandez, Carlos, Coutinho, Walton P. and Currie, Christine (2023) Location of chief police officers in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, using OCBA. Currie, Christine and Rhodes-Leader, Luke (eds.) In Proceedings of the 11th Simulation Workshop, SW 2023. Operational Research Society. pp. 162-171 . (doi:10.36819/SW23.019).

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Abstract

Over the past few decades, the escalation of violence made public security take centre stage on the Brazilian political and social agenda. This paper focuses on the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, one of the most violent states in Brazil according to national indexes. We study a location problem originating from the interaction between different police institutions. We aim at determining the location of chief civil police officers responsible for crime registration and investigation. This work applies Discrete Event Simulation (DES) in order to model the reporting process of the police when criminal activity happens. The DES model is used as a basis for an Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (OCBA) algorithm in order to improve the overall simulation efficiency for finding the best locations. Our numerical experiments show that the proposed framework could potentially help increase the operational efficiency of police forces in Pernambuco's cities.

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Published date: March 2023
Venue - Dates: 11th Simulation Workshop, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, 2023-03-27 - 2023-03-29
Keywords: Location problem, Public security, Simulation-optimisation

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Local EPrints ID: 478560
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/478560
PURE UUID: b14f51a2-6d80-4f60-9707-c127663e870e
ORCID for Carlos Lamas-Fernandez: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5329-7619
ORCID for Christine Currie: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7016-3652

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Date deposited: 04 Jul 2023 18:02
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:52

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Author: Yifu Wei
Author: Carlos Lamas-Fernandez ORCID iD
Author: Walton P. Coutinho
Editor: Christine Currie
Editor: Luke Rhodes-Leader

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