Study title

Survey and analysis of economy measures in municipal police forces. The study contains 12 data files on municipal police forces. The files derive from a mail survey among the heads and administrative chiefs of these police forces, political, financial and demographic statistics from the Central Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Finance, municipal documents and a telephone survey among heads of municipal financial departments. A twelfth file contains combined data and results of analysis ( scales, indices etc. ). The files contain detailed data on expenditures, retrenchments, policy, organizational structure and tasks of the municipal police force, with an emphasis on policies and methods used to economize.