Measuring the Performance of Drug Law Enforcement Katie Willis∗ and Peter Homel∗∗ Abstract Being able to describe and explain program effectiveness and impacts is integral to modern policing. The primary tool for doing this–performance measurement–is the current mantra of modern public sector agencies around the world. This is because measuring performance is fundamental to effective program management and has formed an important part of the wider public sector reform movement over the past ten to fifteen years. Unsurprisingly, this general trend has seen the development of a number of important Australian and international initiatives in law enforcement performance measurement. These are described here. The paper then highlights and describes a model performance measurement framework for drug law enforcement agencies. This framework was developed in an attempt to redress some of the evident limitations of current systems available in Australia, although it is also suggested that potentially this could be adapted to settings beyond Australia. Introduction
community safety and well-being. These sorts ofoutcomes are considered important DLE goals and
Drug law enforcement (DLE) agencies around the
are often described by police as significant work mo-
world have used drug seizure and arrest data to mea-
tivators (Willis et al., 2006).
sure the effectiveness of their work performance for
DLE agencies have struggled to develop measures
a long time. These measures of DLE effort are sim-
that adequately capture and assess the extent and na-
ple and well understood, although they really only
ture of their work. This is due to a range of factors,
demonstrate the extent to which law enforcement
but is mostly because of an insufficient number of
agencies engage in certain types of activities and al-
underlying robust data sources and the illicit nature
locate resources. They are not particularly useful for
of the drugs market itself, which makes it difficult
demonstrating the broader impacts of law enforce-
to measure the size of the problem. For example, a
ment work, such as explaining changes in levels of
major review of drug data and research in the USA
∗Dr Katie Willis, Research Analyst, Australian Institute of Criminology and former senior performance auditor at the AustralianNational Audit Office. E-mail: katie.willis@aic.gov.au∗∗Peter Homel, Manager, Crime Reduction and Review Programme, Australian Institute of Criminology. E-mail: peter.homel@aic.gov.au
This project was funded by, and prepared for, the National Drug Law Enforcement Fund by the Australian Institute ofCriminology in conjunction with the Australian Customs Service, NSW Police Service and NSW Bureau of Crime Statisticsand Research. The full report, Developing and implementing a performance measurement framework for drug law enforcement inAustralia, is available at http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/other/2006-ndlerfmono18.htmlPolicing, Volume 2, Number 3, pp. 311–321doi: 10.1093/police/pan047
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in the early 2000s (Manski et al., 2001) found that
systems available. It is argued that the framework
existing sources of information and performance
provides sufficient flexibility to be applied at na-
measurement systems built around this informa-
tional through to local levels of DLE in Australia.
tion were inadequate to assess the extent of the
Potentially, it could also be adapted to settings be-
illicit drug trade in that country. Similar difficulties
yond Australia and could be incorporated into more
were observed in the UK in the late 1990s (Newburn
extensive evaluative processes. Although it is beyond
and Elliott, 1998). Until recently there had also been
the scope of this present paper to discuss applica-
few attempts to develop more robust DLE perfor-
tions of the framework beyond DLE, the authors
mance measurement systems in Australia (Sutton
consider that the overarching concept and develop-
and James, 1996; Weatherburn, 2000; Willis et al.,
mental approach taken could also be applied within
other specialist areas of law enforcement.
There are two basic tools for measuring the ef-
fectiveness of any policy or program---performance
Recent developments in law
measurement and evaluation. Each tool is a distinct
enforcement performance
but related technique and both work from some
measurement
common data sources. They both take as their fun-damental point of reference the logic model that un-
Several significant developments in law enforcement
derlies any policy or program. However, they differ
performance measurement have occurred over the
in their time horizons, their assumptions and their
past few years that can be directly applied within the
particular uses. Good performance measurement is
DLE context. These have occurred in a number of
primarily about the ‘here and now’ and is essen-
countries, but primarily the UK, USA and Australia.
tially descriptive. It looks at where things are todayand asks ‘how well are we doing?’ (Schacter, 2002).
Evaluation takes a longer term perspective and looks
In the UK, three important program-level develop-
back over a period of years at the performance of a
ments in performance management have occurred:
the Police Performance Assessment Framework
While performance measurement can provide in-
(PPAF), Assessments of Policing and Commu-
sight into whether a policy or program is likely to
nity Safety (APACS) and the Scottish Policing
achieve its objectives, evaluation is more emphatic.
Performance Framework (SPPF). Until PPAF, the
Based on more detailed research and analysis, eval-
UK police service was considered to have lagged
uation attempts to develop firm conclusions about
behind many other public services in terms of
whether the initiative has achieved its intended out-
the extent, robustness and transparency of their
comes. It pushes the analysis more deeply, asking
performance measurement. Both PPAF and APACS
whether the high-level outcomes themselves were
(which is set to replace PPAF shortly) are designed to
well chosen. Performance measurement takes high-
reflect the breadth of modern policing and include
a range of measures that assess the contribution of
Focusing on performance measurement rather
local communities and other organizations, as well
than evaluation, this paper provides a brief overview
as the police service itself. SSPF, which was intro-
of recent initiatives that have occurred internation-
duced in early 2007, is also designed to capture the
ally in law enforcement. It then goes on to describe
breadth of policing activity and includes measures
a model performance measurement framework for
DLE that was recently co-developed by Australian
researchers and law enforcement personnel in an ef-
fort to address some of the limitations of current
Measuring the Performance of Drug Law Enforcement
have not traditionally been measured by law en-
forcement agencies but that are important to under-standing what law enforcement agencies produce for
Coupled with these program-level improvements,
the Home Office has also developed a drug harm
index (DHI) to assist assessment of the UK Gov-
has also occurred at a local level in the USA. A num-
ernment’s target to reduce the harm caused by il-
ber of cities are addressing their drug use problems
legal drugs (MacDonald et al., 2005). It was de-
by combining strategic planning with performance
signed to capture harms generated by problematic
measurement to develop comprehensive, balanced
use of any illegal drug by combining several na-
plans to reduce drug use and its consequences. For
tional indicators into a single figure time-series in-
instance, Rochester city, New York, conceived its
dex. The DHI is considered a useful step forward
drug strategy in systemic terms by linking together
in improving how police work is measured, but re-
basic elements of local drug control activities to
quires further development to overcome a number
form a unified approach to combat local substance
of limitations (MacDonald et al., 2005; Newcombe,
abuse problems. Key community stakeholders
(representing law enforcement, health and social ser-
In addition to the above developments, the Home
vice agencies and community-based organizations)
Office has also produced a number of online toolkits
came together to conduct needs assessments. They
and other practical guides to assist law enforcement
then devised strategies to address needs and imple-
executives through to operational police improve
ment programs, and developed measures to monitor
their understanding of what performance measure-
program performance (Carnevale Associates, 2005).
ment is, how it can be applied and what should bemeasured.1
Several key initiatives have occurred in Australia in
the past few years to assist understanding of law
Much effort has gone towards improving per-
enforcement performance measurement and/or to
formance measurement in the US law enforce-
improve the types of performance metrics used by
ment environment recently. This has occurred
law enforcement agencies. Most of this work has
at both national and local levels, with national
focussed on improving DLE performance measure-
agencies focussing their attention on producing
ment. Important work to have emerged includes
technical guides to aid improved performance man-
r development of a DHI to provide a single mea-
agement, while local-level police and other agen-
sure that encapsulates the potential value to the
cies have begun using methodologies such as sys-
Australian community of Australian Federal Po-
tems analysis and program logic models to develop
more comprehensive approaches to performance
drug modelling work to foster drug policy in-
Important national initiatives in the USA include
sights, ideas and interventions to improve re-
two technical guides (Osnick Milligan and Fridell,
sponses to illicit drug use (Ritter et al., 2007)
2006; Roberts, 2006) designed to assist police to de-
r improving illicit drug indicators to increase
velop and implement comprehensive performance
standardization, quality, detail, timeliness and
management systems. The guides attempt to focus
comprehensiveness of data collected (Barker
attention on the broad spectrum of activities that
1 For example, see http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/toolkits/index.htm.
r development of ecstasy market indicators to personnel employed, legislation, agency resources
improve Australian law enforcement’s under-
and the character of the different markets for illicit
standing of local ecstasy markets (Fowler et al.,
drugs themselves. There is often crossover between
the various levels of Australian DLE so that collab-
r development of a national performance mea- orations and partnerships are formed as the need
surement framework to address limitations of
arises (Willis et al., 2006).
existing DLE performance measurement sys-
While Australian DLE action is chiefly directed
at impacting on reducing the supply of drugs intoand within the country, discussions with a large
The remainder of this paper will present an
number and range of DLE personnel reveal that
overview of the National Performance Measurement
performance measures that merely seek to assess
supply reduction outcomes are inadequate (Williset al., 2006; Ritter, 2007). In practice, DLE pol-icy in Australia reflects the tripartite goals of Aus-
Background to the DLE
tralia’s National Drug Strategy: reductions in harm,
performance measurement
supply and demand. Moreover, examination of the
framework
various strategic and business plans used by na-
Australia has a complex array of DLE agencies spread
tional, state and territory DLE agencies discloses
between the national and state/territory levels. Un-
that expectations for the range of impacts and ef-
like many other countries, Australia does not have
fectiveness of DLE actions extend beyond supply
any law enforcement agencies exclusively dedicated
reduction and into goals associated with improv-
to DLE. While many law enforcement agencies have
ing community well-being (or public amenity) as
specific units working exclusively on illicit drug is-
well as the health and well-being of drug-involved
sues, these responsibilities are handled as part of
their broader law enforcement functions. This is the
In developing and testing a viable performance
measurement framework for Australian DLE, there
needed to be a range of measures that addressed
the federal system and associated legislative ar-
the full scope of anticipated impacts---that is, across
the areas of drug and drug-related crime, health and
r variations in the production and distribution publicamenity. However,fourimportant challenges
r local and regional variations in drug consump-
r Mostofthedataavailableformeasuringtheper-
formance of DLE action in achieving goals such
as improvements in public health and amenity
DLE work is undertaken at many levels in Aus-
may not be readily available to law enforcement
tralia, from general duty policing to drug unit and
agencies and/or is poorly developed. Addition-
command levels through to state and federal lev-
ally, measures collected by other agencies reflect
els, as well as across jurisdictions. Each level and
the specific needs of these agencies and may not
jurisdiction differs in terms of whether there is
a dedicated or generalist organizational structure
A need to avoid having too many performance
and whether this is primarily centralized or regional-
measures, as well as developing too many mea-
ized in nature. They also differ according to preferred
sures from ‘scratch’. The practical basis for using
operational approaches, the number of specialized
a small number of individual measures is that it
Measuring the Performance of Drug Law Enforcement
becomes easier to properly attribute cause and
a detailed examination of the available DLE per-
effect in terms of actions taken and outcomes
formance measurement literature (both pub-
r Performance measurement, when used as a
However, much of the framework’s development
tool for performance improvement, needs to be
occurred through implementation trials undertaken
based on familiar measures, that is, measures
as part of the project in two field sites: a site with a
that are understood and accepted by those en-
national focus (the Australian Customs Service), and
gaged in the work being examined. As such,
a site with a local focus (New South Wales (NSW)
identification of key measures that can be pro-
Police). An in-depth examination of the appropri-
moted and developed rather than introducing
ateness and feasibility of each of the framework’s
entirely new measures is preferable. It is recog-
measures occurred at both of these sites. Key el-
nized that not all data sources identified for use
ements of the framework were further developed
in the model framework are available in all set-
and tested using field trials in two NSW Police Lo-
tings and so it represents a model instrument
cal Area Commands. These trials focused on the
that needs to be adapted to suit different orga-
development of a supplementary tool built on the
experience and insights to emerge from the progres-
r A need to develop a performance measure- sive implementation of the AIC’s Drug Use Moni-
ment framework that is dynamic. The high-
toring in Australia (DUMA) program (see Mouzos
level outcomes identified for the framework are
et al., 2007). This tool involved enhancement of a
all directional; that is, they point to either im-
standard offender debriefing process, currently ap-
provements or reductions in drug-related con-
plied to all arrestees in most Australian jurisdic-
ditions. This means that the context in which
tions for the purpose of gathering local crime intel-
the performance measurement system operates
ligence to include questions on illicit drug market
is dynamic where change will constantly oc-
cur (hopefully in the desired direction). Sig-
One important finding from the trials was that
nificant elements of the wider environment
without strong executive commitment to the imple-
will always be outside the direct control of
mentation of the performance measurement frame-
program managers and need to be accounted
work, the system would fail. However, the measures
for in any performance measurement system.
employed also needed to be meaningful and relevant
This means that a performance measurement
to those working at all levels of the DLE process.
framework needs to be regularly reviewed and
This was a particular challenge given the different
foci of DLE at the national, jurisdictional and locallevels. However, the basic principles and steps werestraightforward:
r developmultiplehigh-leveloutcomesreflecting
Developing the framework
The framework was a product of a number of dif-
r identify adequate measures that aligned with
r project meetings, workshops and over 100 in-
r developmethodsfordealingwithoutcometime
terviews held with personnel in DLE agencies
lag (that is, some initiatives take longer than
r discussionsheldduringtheproject’sregularad-
r identify tools for attributing outcomes to inter-
When developing a new performance measure-
measures related to drug price, purity and availabil-
ment system it is essential to establish a clearly
ity, as well as measures concerned with drug traf-
defined set of high-level outcomes from the out-
ficking practices. The distinction in the framework
set. This is especially important when working
between drug crime and drug-related crime is de-
with complex programs that have multiple strate-
liberate and made because the latter is often used
gic and operational players employing a mixture of
loosely to describe both types of crime, when in fact
interventions. A lack of clarity around high-
their aetiologies are quite different (Makkai, 1999).
level outcomes renders performance measurement
The second outcome, reducing organized crime,
meaningless. What emerged during the framework’s
includes measures specifically directed at address-
development was that there was a great deal of clar-
ing high-level drug crime. It is distinguished from
ity of the objectives for DLE across the various lev-
the framework’s first outcome because of the other
els of DLE in Australia. This was strengthened by
crimes that usually go hand-in-hand with organized
the strong coincidence of DLE goals with those of
criminal groups that traffic illicit drugs (such as
Australia’s National Drug Strategy. As a conse-
money laundering, extortion, corruption of public
quence, the project was able to focus on the last three
officers) and that have serious and far-reaching im-
steps outlined above in the process for developing
pacts on the community’s safety and welfare. Mea-
sures for this outcome focus on elements concernedwith trafficking. As can be seen in the framework, a
The framework
number of the same measures are also incorporatedunder the first outcome as they may also be applied
Performance measures developed for the model
framework underpin four high-level outcome areas
The third outcome, improving public health, in-
identified by DLE personnel during the project as
cludes a range of measures for gauging the impact
key outcomes of DLE effort. In turn, and as already
of illicit drugs on the community’s health. For ex-
described above, these outcomes support Australia’s
ample, trends in illicit drug-related deaths and mor-
National Drug Strategy goals to limit the supply of
bidity and the health services underpinning these
and demand for illicit drugs, while also minimizing
The fourth outcome, improving public amenity,
The model framework’s four high-level outcomes
incorporates a small number of measures of com-
r reducing drug crime and drug-related crime
While separated for descriptive purposes, in prac-
tice, the four high-level outcomes are interrelated,
not discrete. The nature of this interrelationship is
complex and varied, but how it can operate is illus-
trated in Figure 1. For example, activities directed at
The first outcome, reducing drug crime and
reducing aggregate drug consumption and expendi-
drug-related crime, includes measures directed at ad-
ture are likely to impact on all four high-level out-
dressing specific drug crimes (for instance, the im-
comes. On the other hand, measures specifically tar-
portation, supply and distribution of illicit drugs),
geting crime problems associated with illicit drugs,
measures for assessing drug market dynamics, as
such as money laundering and extortion, are likely to
well as a measure of the crime most reliably associ-
have the most impact on reducing organized crime,
ated with illicit drug use, particularly heroin use, in
and so on. However, because of these linkages, it is
Australia (robbery). For example, to assess changes
likely that activities undertaken by DLE agencies to
in drug markets, the framework includes a series of
reduce drug crime and drug-related crime may also
Measuring the Performance of Drug Law Enforcement
Reducing drug crime & drug-related Improving Improving
injury, lost productivity, poor parenting and other factors stemming from drug use
Reducing organized
Figure 1: Relationship between High-Level Outcomes
contribute to improving public health and/or public
tially viable performance measurement framework
amenity. In practice, this can be seen in moves both
for DLE. Furthermore, the framework that was de-
in Australia and overseas to link enforcement action
veloped is sufficiently flexible to address the needs
to treatment provision. This aims to ensure that any
of Australian DLE agencies with a brief for bor-
disruption or depletion of a drug market is sustained
der protection and offshore operations as well as
by providing treatment and support to drug users
state and territory DLE agencies concerned with a
if and when there is a decrease in the availability of
mixture of responsibilities ranging from organized
drugs.2 A further related issue is that each outcome
crime suppression to street-level dealing and asso-
is constrained by every other outcome. As such, ac-
ciated local crime problems. However, because the
tivities directed towards one outcome should not
framework has deliberately been designed to be flex-
adversely impact on the other outcomes. For in-
ible, it should not be seen as a one size fits all
stance, in Australia police do not generally target
prescription for all DLE agencies. The framework
clients in the vicinity of drug clinics and limit their
is a model and starting point for the development
attendance at overdoses as the priority in these cases
of appropriate performance measures for specific
agencies with specific briefs in different settings. Po-tentially, the approach taken to develop the frame-work could be applied within other specialist law
Conclusion
The project from which the framework was devel-
The framework’s major strength is that it incor-
oped demonstrated that it was possible to apply
porates a range of measures that are, among other
the principles and tools of the modern performance
things, clear in their purpose, useful in gauging the
measurement field to the development of a poten-
effectiveness of DLE policies and strategies, reliable
2 Scotland, Effective Interventions Unit, 2004.
and easy to interpret. They are also easy to adapt to
has already been undertaken to refine the frame-
different settings and, importantly, are aligned with
work’s measures and explore potential gaps in a na-
Australia’s wider drugs policy environment. How-
tional workshop, in which experts working in DLE
ever, the most important aspect of the framework is
and performance measurement from the police and
that the measures, especially those relating to drug
health sectors were involved. In-depth developmen-
crime and drug-related crime, mark an important
tal work has also commenced---this is being achieved
shift in emphasis away from viewing drug seizure
through working directly with DLE personnel in
and arrest measures as the chief means for assessing
four field locations and testing the rigour of each
DLE work performance. Instead, this new suite of
indicator. A major part of this testing includes as-
measures should permit the monitoring of changes
sessing the availability and accessibility of underly-
in the international and domestic drug markets, pro-
ing data sources, but also applying both qualitative
viding a more powerful tool for assessing the real
and time-series analytical techniques to the data. It is
impact of DLE on illicit drug market activity.
hoped that this implementation phase identifies the
The framework is now undergoing further devel-
true practical value of the model framework and its
opment in an implementation phase that is designed
developmental processes and that it reconfirms the
to assess how the framework can work in practice in
model as appropriate across all levels of Australian
national through to local-level DLE settings. Work
Measuring the Performance of Drug Law Enforcement
Appendix A: Model drug law enforcement performance measurement framework
High-level outcome: reduced drug crime and drug-related crime
Number of illicit drug detection/seizures by drug type
Average median weight of illicit drug detections/seizures by
Number of illicit drug traffic/supply arrests by drug type
Number of illicit drug possession/use arrests by drug type
Average median street price of illicit drugs by drug type
Number of people who perceive the purity of illicit drugs to be
high, medium, low or to fluctuate by drug type
Number of people who perceive the availability of illicit drugs to
be very easy, easy, difficult or very difficult by drug type
Number of users who sourced their illicit drugs the last time
from a house/flat; a public building; an abandoned building;
Number of users who contacted their drug supplier the last
time by email/the internet; calling them on a mobile; callingthem on the telephone; visiting a house/flat; paging them on abeeper; approaching them in public; obtaining drugs througha third party; being with them already
Number of users who got their drugs the last time from a
regular source; an occasional source; a new source
Number of users who got their drugs the last time from a
location different from the arrest location
Number and weight of illicit drug detections/seizures (by drug
type) that were trafficked via cargo; air passengers/crew;
postal services; car; private transport company; on the person
Number of illicit drug traffickers who are categorized by
Customs as ’business’, ’professional’, ’amateur’ or
Number of people arrested for armed and unarmed robbery
(ABS) recorded crime,victims data collection
High-level outcome: reduced organized crime
Median weight of illicit drug detections/seizures by drug type
Number and weight of illicit drug detections/seizures (by drug
type) that were trafficked via cargo; air passengers/crew;
postal services; car; private transport company; on the person(not including air passengers/crew)
Appendix A: Model drug law enforcement performance measurement framework (continued)
Number of illicit drug traffickers who are categorized by
Customs as ‘business’, ‘professional’, ‘amateur’ or
High-level outcome: improved public health
Number of people who used illicit drugs in the past month by
Number of people who used illicit drugs in the past month
who used at least once a day; at least once a week (not daily);less than weekly
for Alcohol and Other DrugTreatment (NMDS)
Number of people with positive status of HCV/HIV
Number of drug-related deaths by drug type
Number of drug-related emergency department presentations
Number of ambulance attendances at overdose by drug type
Number of clients in detoxification; in a rehabilitation
program/therapeutic community; in outpatient/counselling; in
a support group; in methadone maintenance; inbuprenorphine treatment; in naltrexone treatment; seeing ageneral practitioner
High-level outcome: improved public amenity
Number and proportion of people who feel very unsafe, unsafe,
Number and proportion of people who are very concerned,
concerned, unconcerned about the drug problem in their localarea and state
Source: Willis et al. (2006).
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