Public security, Criminalistics, Multicriteria decision, Entropy, BWM, RTOPSIS
Public security is an area of increasing importance in Brazil. Society demands that public resources invested be managed more efficiently and effectively. Criminalistics is an integral and vital part of the Brazilian public security system and needs new management tools that allow better allocation of human resources, equipment and facilities. Faced with a scenario of budgetary constraints, the research proposes to evaluate the operational viability of the forensic units of the Federal Police from the application of the Entropy, BWM and R-TOPSIS methods, resulting in the development of a multicriteria decision support hybrid model that allows the ranking of existing forensic units in Brazil. In this way, the model will support the decision-maker with an evidence-based methodology to optimize the Federal Police forensic units.