The Impact of Single and Two-Officer Patrols on Catching Burglars in the Act

A Critique of the Audit Commission's Reports on Youth Justice

Bibliographic Data

ID8403263
AuthorsL Blake (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume41
Issue2
Pages381-396
Publication date2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/41.2.381
OpenAlexW1973277529
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This study is concerned with determining the relative success of single and two-officer patrols in catching burglars red-handed. It is based on a six-month study of ‘in progress’ burglary, funded by the UK Home Office's Policing and Crime Reducing Unit, using questionnaire surveys of patrol officers, burglary site surveys and police records. Although two-officer patrols appeared to be better at catching burglars, this reflected burglary characteristics, their circumstances prior to responding, and the fact that many used rapid response, ‘zulu’ cars, as much as the intrinsic advantages of having two officers instead of a single officer. Two-officer patrols' speed advantage operated only at distances from the burglary scene from which few patrols managed to reach the scene first or catch many burglars.

Audit · Business · Commission · Criminology · Economic Justice · Officer · Political science · Unit (ring theory) · Accounting · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Engineering · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

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