Efficiency of Using Financial Resources and Their Impact on Security in a Local Context

Each city or municipality expends a certain amount of financial resources for creation of the most secure environment possible. Several methods exist for assessing the efficiency of using these resources. One of the methods for comparing efficiency is Data Envelope Analysis, or the DEA method. Using this method we determine to what measure the selected largest cities in the Slovak Republic utilize resources for security. An important task is to select suitable data, which will be the inputs and outputs for the given method. The amount of financial resources from a security program per resident and the amount of financing from the budget per resident were selected among the inputs. The number of residents per one violation was selected as the output. In the contribution the most current closed period in the final accounts of the cities are compared.