To achieve this however there is a need to understand the conceptual difficulty in arriving at a precise definition of police performance. This is widely reported with a number of academics (Albert and Dunham, 2001; Maguire, 2004; Shane, 2010) who identify that performance is commonly found in two forms, either as trait dimensions that are scored subjectively by the officer’s immediate supervisor based on observed behaviours, or as activities arising from the tasks related to the police function that are scored objectively based on the number of instances per activity (e.g. motor vehicle accidents or directed patrols). Kelling et al., (1974) suggest that simply putting more officers on the beat or increasing marked police cars do not necessarily translate into crime-related actions. This is more a matter of budget priority rather than police effectiveness.