Paul Smit
DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING
INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE
WESTERN BALKANS
PHASE 3 – STATISTICAL TRAINING
Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244), 6th – 8th October 2010
With funding from the
European Union
DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR
JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN
THE WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011
Phase three – Training
SESSION 1
• Introductions
• Where this training fits into the
CARDS Project
• How the sessions are organised
Paul Smit
• Hewlett Packard – Software design
• Statistics Netherlands – Criminal Justice Statistics
(Court and Prosecution Statistics)
• Ministry of Justice, the Netherlands
– Police, Prosecution and Court Statistics
– Criminal Justice research (Homicides)
• University teacher in Computing
• International comparative work in Europe.
With funding from the
European Union
DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS
JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN
WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011
Phase three – Training
FOR
THE
Paul Smit – some recent work
• Prosecution, Goettingen University study on differnt prosecution
models (2006-2008)
• International comparison of detection rates (2005)
• European Sourcebook on Crime and Justice Statistics, 1997-2010
• Consultant (evaluator) UNODC Data for Africa (2009 – 2010)
•
ICVS multi mode test (2008 – 2010)
•
Sourcebook of European Homicide Research
•
National representative for Eurostat
MY PURPOSES FOR THIS WEEK
1. To understand the needs of participants
2. To being to share my 20+ years experience of
crime and justice statistics
3. To open an e-mail link for any who wish to keep in
contact (p.r.smit@minjus.nl prsmit@pipe.nl )
With funding from the
European Union
DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS
JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN
WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011
Phase three – Training
FOR
THE
INTRODUCTIONS FROM
PARTICIPANTS
• Please give name, organisation, position and
what you would like to gain from the training
this week.
• Plus any other information that you think
could be useful to the others here.
• Please comment on the proposed agenda of
the week if you wish
With funding from the
European Union
DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS
JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN
WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011
Phase three – Training
FOR
THE
LESSONS LEARNED FROM PREVIOUS
WORK
• Essential for every country to have good basic data
on police, prosecution, corrections, courts,
migration, victims
• Essential for good co-ordination of data
– Across different areas of law enforcement
– Across the country as a whole
• Involve central statistics agencies
• Good knowledge on Data handling, Statistics and
thorough understanding of the CJ field
With funding from the
European Union
DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS
JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN
WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011
Phase three – Training
FOR
THE
LESSONS LEARNED FROM PREVIOUS
WORK (cont.)
• Need for good central guidelines
• Need to publish statistics routinely
• Need to use statistics for policy and operations, but there is
a difference between statistics and accounting
• Carry out research to get more information as to what the
statistics actually mean
• Important to get independence from politicians
• Achieving all this takes a good deal of time and you should
think about a 5 or 10 year plan
With funding from the
European Union
DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS
JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN
WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011
Phase three – Training
FOR
THE
STRENGTHENING JUSTICE & HOME AFFAIRS STATISTICS IN
THE WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011
• Objective: to strengthen response to crime and corruption
by bringing national statistics justice and home affairs
towards compliance with international standards and EU
acquis
• Project funded by the EU under the CARDS programme with
additional funds from Germany
• Three Phases
• Many common features with UNODC, World Bank Statistical
work in Africa and Middle East
7 countries / territories
Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, FYROM, Kosovo (under
UNSCR 1244), Montenegro, Serbia
THE THREE PHASES: PHASE 1 (RESEARCH)
• Set out relevant international standards and EU acquis
• Picture of the strengths & weaknesses of data collection
systems
• Identify gaps and needs of statistical systems
It involved:
 Desktop research
 7 research missions
One output:
 Technical Assessment Reports for 7 countries /
territories
PHASE 2: GUIDELINES
• To identify common data collection challenges
• To discuss and adopt specific draft programme guidelines
• To agree a set of regional indicators
• To prioritise training needs and adopt outlines of training
programmes
It involved:
o Preparation of draft Programme Guidelines
o Feedback from project countries / territories
o Discussion and adoption at First Regional Workshop
One output:
o Programme Guidelines adopted
PHASE 3: TRAINING
• To design and deliver targeted training activities
• To improve national capacities to record and report JHA statistics in
line with international standards and EU acquis
• To identify areas for further work and improvements
It involves:
o Training to be carried out by international experts together with
national focal points and national counterparts
o Training delivered to police, prosecution, courts, and
institutions in areas of migration / asylum / visa
FIRST REGIONAL WORKSHOP (SKOPJE, MAY 2010)
Goals
• To present the technical assessment reports
• To identify common data collection challenges
• To adopt specific draft guidelines
• To prioritise training needs
• To adopt the outlines of the training program
• To agree on a set of regional indicators
CHALLENGES OF THE CCJ STATISTICAL SYSTEM IN
THE WESTERN BALKANS
• Developing person-based systems
• Developing better computerized systems to record data
• Assigning a unique Integrated File Number (IFN) to personrecords to track persons across the whole CCJ system
• Clear written counting rules to record crime incidents
• Better co-ordination of statistics across countries and
across agencies of law enforcement
• Training all responsible staff with regard to implementation
• Enhancing statistical analysis and use of the data collected
• Improving public dissemination of the data collected
I WILL DEAL WITH SOME BUT NOT ALL OF THESE ISSUES
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE PROGRAMME
GUIDELINES
# 4,13,
21,22
A tripartite working group with experts from the police, prosecution and court
systems may consider whether and how an integrated file number (IFN)
system could be introduced and extended to all criminal justice institutions. In
line with good practice described by the United Nations Manual for the
Development of a System of Criminal Justice Statistics, the introduction of an
IFN to track persons and cases throughout the criminal justice system should
be considered. In this respect, discussions of the working group could
commence with consideration of the existing file number systems used by
KPIS, prosecution and courts.
Session 2-5
# 17
To facilitate dissemination, the Office of Statistics on Prosecution should
consider publishing its Annual Report on its website in Albanian, Serbian and
English.
Session 6
# 18,29
Consideration should be given to making fuller use of the wealth of data
collected by prosecution offices in Kosovo under UNSCR 1244. More
specifically, the Office of Statistics on Prosecution and the SOK may consider
entering into a partnership with academic researchers in order to promote indepth analysis of available data that enhance the knowledge base for policy
makers and criminal justice practitioners.
Session 6
# 28
Reported statistics on persons accused in court should also contain details of
age; the offender-victim relationship; and the geographical area of residence.
Session 3
# 39
Consideration should be given to the appointment of a single contact point for
the reporting of all crime and criminal justice data at the central, regional and
international levels.
Session 7