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GENERAL INFORMATION ON SPECIFIC TRAINING SESSION – KOSOVO (UNDER UNSCR 1244): 22ND -24TH SEPTEMBER 2010 – PAT MAYHEW
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General information and relevant recommendations in the PGR
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General information (Source: TAR of Kosovo under UNSCR 1244): Kosovo Police (KP) is an
executive agency in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The KP has 6 regional directorates, and 35
municipal police stations The Analytical Unit in the Directorate of Crime Analysis administers the
‘Kosovo Police Information System’ (KPIS) that records police crime data. The database is now
somewhat outdated and a replacement is being considered.
Noteworthy incidents are logged daily in municipal police stations on an ‘initial case incident’ form
which is then sent to the regional directorates. Cases are then entered into KPIS, classified as a a
crime, misdemeanor or other incident. All cases handled by the Organized Crime Department are
recorded in the KPIS only after the case has been handed over to the prosecutor.
There are no written rules on the initial recording of criminal and other incidents. A unique ‘incident
number’ is assigned to each case. This is not shared by prosecution and courts. A separate number
is not assigned to a suspected offender or known perpetrator.
Priority recommendations (Source: Programme Guidelines for Kosovo under UNSCR 1244):
Kosovo
under
UNSCR
1244
22nd
24th
–
September
2010
Police Training
Guidelines and written rules
on data entry and counting;
victim-offender relationships;
recidivism; organised crime
N. 1: Written rules on the initial recording of crime incidents and persons suspected of crimes
should be elaborated and disseminated to all police stations. These rules should reflect
relevant standards and formalise practice within Kosovo to ensure full recording of all required
information at the initial stage.
Pat Mayhew,
Miroslav Prljevic,
Giulia Mugellini
20 police officers
N. 2: Information recorded in the ‘initial case incident’ form and KPIS should be supplemented by
records on offender-victim relationship and on recidivism.
N. 3: Consideration should be given whether KPIS should include a specific field identifying
organized crime cases in accordance with relevant international and regional definitions, as
well as the Organized Crime Section of the Kosovo Police that is responsible.
N. 8: Crime categories used for reporting should be reviewed in light of those used in regional and
international reporting. In addition to existing statistical breakdowns by ethnicity, reported
statistics on criminal offenders should be disaggregated by crime type, age, sex and
citizenship. Statistics on victims of crime should also be disaggregated by crime type, age,
sex, citizenship and victim-offender relationship.
N. 9: Published statistics should be accompanied by interpretations of statistical patterns and trends
as well as detailed metadata. More extensive use of the internet for the dissemination of
detailed crime statistics in standard tabulations should be considered
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DETAILED TRAINING AGENDA - KOSOVO (UNDER UNSCR 1244) – DAY 1 – 22ND SEPTEMBER 2010
Date
Specific topics
Time
Relevant documents and participation needed
[1] Welcome and Introduction
1
14:00 – 15:00 2
Wednesday 22nd September 2010
3
- Handout # 1: Excerpt from Programme Guidelines for Kosovo under UNSCR 12
44 recommendations (1, 2, 3, 8, 9)
Introductions
- Participants should be ready to introduce themselves for Topic 1
Where this training fits into the CARDS project
How the sessions are organised (with list of Programme Guidelines
recommendations and how these will be dealt with)
15:00 – 15:15
Break
[2] Overview of reports of police data at international and national level
15.15 – 16.30
1
Need for valid data and common standards
2
Main international compilations of police figures
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United Nations
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European Sourcebook
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Eurostat – Statistics in Focus
- Doc. N. 1: UNODC-HEUNI, 2010 International Statistics on Crime and Justice (pdf
available) - FOCUS ON: Chapter 2 “Trends in Police Recorded Crime”, pp. 21-47
- Doc. N. 2: European Sourcebook, 2010 ( pdf available) – FOCUS ON: Chapter 1
“Police Statistics”, pp. 25-125
- Doc. N. 3: Eurostat, Statistics in Focus 36 / 2009 ( pdf available)
- Doc. N. 4: Eurostat, 2009 Offence Definitions and Explanatory Notes (pdf
available)
3 Two examples of national reports:
- Doc. N. 5: England & Wales Crime Statistics (pdf available) – FOCUS ON:
Chapter 1 “Overview”, pp. 1-9
- England & Wales;
- Doc. N. 6: New Zealand Police Statistics (pdf available)
- New Zealand
4 Introduction to suggested Regional Indicators and Pilot Data Collection Exercise
- Handout # 2: List of Regional Indicators relevant to the police only (for Session 5)
- Handout # 3: Pilot Data Collection Exercise (for Session 5)
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DETAILED TRAINING AGENDA - KOSOVO (UNDER UNSCR 1244) – DAY 2 – 23RD SEPTEMBER 2010
Date
Time
9:00 – 10:30
Specific topics
Documents suggested and participation needed
[3] Written rules for recording and counting crimes and suspects
1 What consistency in recording is there without written rules?
2 What are the main rules to be considered (Rec.1)? Particular issues are:
a. The principal offence rule
b. Multiple offences
c. Multiple offenders and suspects
3 Resource and training implications of written rules
Thursday 23rd September 2010
10:30 – 10:45
- Doc. N. 7: M.F. Aebi, 2008, Measuring the influence of statistical counting rules on
cross-national differences in recorded crime (pdf available)
- Doc N. 8: Home Office General Counting Rules (pdf available). [Further information
is at http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/countrules.html
- Handout # 4: Counting Rules in Europe, 2007
- Participants should be ready to contribute to this session.
Break
[4] Particular issues from the recommendations
1 Victim-offender relationships (Rec. 2, 8)
10:45 – 12.00 2 Reporting on ethnicity and citizenship (Rec. 8) - offenders and victims
3 Recidivism of offenders (Rec. 2) – how feasible?
4 An organised crime ‘marker’ (Rec. 3) – how feasible?
12:00 – 13:30
- Handout # 5: Two examples of victim-offender relationships
- Handout # 6: ‘Nationality’ in the Judicial Statistics for Kosovo under UNSCR 1244
- Handout # 7: Definitions of organised crime
- Participants should be ready to contribute to this session.
Lunch
[5] Overview of current reports, Regional Indicators and the Pilot Data Collection - Handout # 2: List of Regional Indicators relevant to the police
Exercise
- Handout # 3: Pilot Data Collection Exercise
13:30 – 14:45 1 Overview of current reports
2 Current reports in terms of the Regional Indicators & Pilot Data Collection Exercise - Participants need to be able to discuss the Annual Police Report, and the monthly
and annual (unpublished) reports to the Ministry of Interior Affairs
14:45 – 15:00
Break
[6] Publication of results, analysis and interpretation
1 How are the current publications received?
- What tables are most needed, used and liked?
- What are the main problems in compiling them? How can these be avoided?
15:00 – 16:15
2 How feasible is internet publication?
3 How feasible is publication in English?
4 Do the current publications match different user requirements?
5 Ways forward with analysis and interpretation
- Doc N. 9: UN Manual for the Development of a System of Criminal Justice
Statistics (pdf available) – CHAPTER VI, ANNEX B & F
- Participants should be ready to contribute to this session
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DETAILED TRAINING AGENDA - KOSOVO UNDER UNSCR 1244 – DAY 3 – 24th SEPTEMBER 2010
Date
Specific topics
Time
Documents suggested and participation needed
[7] Victimisation surveys
Friday 24th September 2010
9:00 – 10:00
1
The purpose of victimisation surveys
- Handout # 8: Outline of the current draft of the 2013 Eurostat survey
questionnaire
2
Strengths and limitations
- Handout # 9: ICVS-II outline questionnaire
3
International comparative exercises (ICVS, ICVS-II, Eurostat survey in 2013,
Corruption Survey)
- Handout # 10: Western Balkans Corruption Survey – victimisation questions
10:00 – 10:15
Break
[8] Round-up and work planning
- A summary of points from relevant previous sessions will be prepared during
training (Topic 1)
1
Summary of previous sessions
2
Issues that were felt were not adequately discussed or agreed (for future training)
10:15 – 12:00 3
- Participants need to contribute to this session as fully as possible so that :
o The summary of previous sessions is agreed (Topic 1)
Agree and define goals for the short-term and long-term
4
Define deadlines for some short-term goals, and define steps to implement these.
5
Define deadlines for long-term goals, and define actors, steps, resources and
funding to implement these
o Issues for further training are clearly identified (Topic 2)
o There is a definite forward plan (Topics 4 & 5)
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