Résumés
Résumé
Les réformes administratives ayant touché les services publics aux cours des vingt dernières années mettent résolument l’accent sur des modes de gestion entrepreneuriaux, qui privilégient les résultats et accordent une plus grande liberté quant aux moyens mis en oeuvre pour les atteindre. Les services de police n’ont pas échappé à cette tendance et, malgré les difficultés structurelles liées à l’évaluation des performances policières, de nouveaux instruments de mesure de l’efficacité et de l’efficience ont vu le jour. Ces derniers ont pour objectif de mettre à la disposition de la communauté des informations sur la qualité du service offert, mais également de favoriser l’identification et la diffusion des meilleures pratiques parmi les organisations policières. En s’appuyant sur l’exemple concret de l’outil développé en Australie depuis une dizaine d’années, on montrera quelle forme peuvent prendre ces nouveaux instruments, quelles sont leurs limites et comment ils pourraient être améliorés.
Abstract
Over the past twenty years, government services have been swept by a wave of public reforms, which emphasise entrepreneurial management techniques, place a high priority on the delivery of outcomes and devolve more power to managers in order to achieve this end. Police services have not escaped this trend, and despite the structural difficulties linked to police performance evaluation, new effectiveness and efficiency measurement tools have been designed. Their objective is to provide information on the quality of service delivery to the community, but also to facilitate the identification and diffusion of best practices among police organizations. Relying on the example of the methodology developed in Australia over the past ten years, we will show the design of these new instruments, what their limitations are and how they could be improved.
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