Mainstreaming Methodology for Estimating Costs of Crime
The total costs of running a country's police force (or forces) may be easy to establish. It is usually a great deal more difficult to find out how police allocate their time between the many different kinds of work they do. Swedish police keep diaries from which allocations can be deduced, but it is rare for such systems to be in widespread use. The Activity Based Costing system used in England can be used to make some broad estimates of costs by offence type, but much of the imputation is comparatively unreliable.
Costing issues:
Bibliographical review: Police review
