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

DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

PHASE 3 – STATISTICAL TRAININGAlbania, 25 th – 26 th October 2010HANDOUT # 1

CHRIS LEWIS

SESSION 1

• Introductions

•Where this training fits into the CARDS Project

•How the sessions are organised

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DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011 Phase three – Training

CHRIS LEWIS – 1964-2003

• UK Central Statistics Office – Use of Social Statistics• Ministry of Defence - military logistics• Chief Statistician – UK Home Office– Police, Prosecution, Courts, Corrections, Immigration

Statistics– Managing and doing Criminal Justice research

• University teacher in Mathematics, Statistics and Computing

• International comparative work in Europe.

CHRIS LEWIS BACKGROUND – recent work

• Visiting Professor, Portsmouth University, UK, 2003-2010

• Lecturing and supervision on statistics for criminal justice

• Research and writing on Prosecution Systems (EU, Japan, Korea, US)

• Training Abu Dhabi Police on collecting and using Statistics.

• European Sourcebook on Crime and Justice Statistics, 1993-2010

• Statistics Consultant World Bank Justice, Security & Governance

• General Data Dissemination system (GDDS) 2004-2010

• Phase 2 Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia. Seychelles, Tanzania

• Internet-based training system for developing countries, 2011

• Consultant governance statistics , African Dev Bank, 2010-2011

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DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011 Phase three – Training

MY PURPOSES FOR THIS TRAINING1. To understand the needs of participants2. To being to share my 30+ years experience of crime

and justice statistics3. To prepare for the second visit in November (on

Prosecution and Courts), especially on what is needed for closer co-operation between agencies and areas.

4. To open an e-mail link for any who wish to keep in contact (chris.lewis@port.ac.uk: cglewis42@gmail.com)

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DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011 Phase three – Training

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

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DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011 Phase three – Training

LESSONS I HAVE LEARNED FROM PREVIOUS WORK- I

• Essential for every country to have good basic data on police, prosecution, corrections, courts, migration, other governance issues

• Essential for good co-ordination of data– Across different areas of law enforcement– Across the country as a whole

• Involve central statistics agencies• Good continuous training in statistics

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DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011 Phase three – Training

LESSONS I HAVE LEARNED FROM PREVIOUS WORK - II

• Need for good central guidelines• Need to publish statistics routinely• Need to use statistics for policy and operations• Carry our 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 we

should think about a 5 or 10 year plan

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 Guidelineso Feedback from project countries / territorieso 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

o Several targeted trainings in Albania between October 2010 - April 2011

• Similar to World Bank work, although Internet Training a new WB feature. This training will be openly available via the WB web site

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 person-records 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

# 17 and # 14

Better coordination with INSTAT should be achieved, in particular with a view to include crime statistics in the Statistical Yearbook. Systematic reporting of statistics … should be established, also in view of international reporting (Eurostat and UN-CTS)

Sessions 4, 5, 6, 7

# 46 The designated Eurostat Focal Point for crime data within INSTAT should work closely with the Department of Data Processing and Protection of the General Directorate of Police and Eurostat in order to develop a protocol for the regular collection and reporting of crime and criminal justice data to Eurostat. The protocol should specify the nature and content of data to be reported.

Sessions 2, 3, 4

# 47 Consideration should be given to the appointment of a single contact point for the reporting of all crime and criminal justice data at the national, regional and international levels. This single contact point could be the same as the focal point for the data collection of Eurostat.

Sessions 2, 3, 4