title: Police Patrol Allocation and Deployment
author:  Eric J. Fritsch 
description: This is the first book to address patrol allocation and deployment in a single source-fully discussing the complexities and factors that impact decision making in this area. This text provides a historical assessment of patrol allocation and deployment and covers central issues in the day to day management of police agencies and personnel. Examining all aspects of patrol allocation and deployment, it discusses deployment through scheduling, modern tactical deployment approaches and the evolution of operational deployment strategies.
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  ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9, 157; doi:10.3390/ijgi9030157 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi 
  Review 
  Analysing the Police Patrol Routing  
  Problem: A Review 
  Maite Dewinter 1,*, Christophe Vandeviver 2,3, Tom Vander Beken 2 and Frank Witlox 1,4,5 
  1 Department of Geography, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 
  2 Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 
  3 Research Foundation–Flanders (FWO), Brussels 1000, Belgium 
  4 Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia 
  5 College of Civil Aviation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 210016 Nanjing, China 
  * Correspondence: maite.dewinter@ugent.be; Tel.: +32-9-264-46-29 
  Received: 06 January 2020; Accepted: 06 March 2020; Published: 9 March 2020  
  Abstract: Police patrol is a complex process. While on patrol, police officers must balance many 
  intersecting responsibilities. Most notably, police must proactively patrol and prevent offenders 
  from committin