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Paul Smit

Paul Smit. DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS PHASE 3 – STATISTICAL TRAINING Albania, January 31 – February 1, 2011. SESSION 1. Introductions Where this training fits into the CARDS Project

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Paul Smit

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  1. Paul Smit DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS PHASE 3 – STATISTICAL TRAINING Albania, January 31 – February 1, 2011

  2. SESSION 1 • Introductions • Where this training fits into the CARDS Project • How the sessions are organised

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. MY PURPOSES FOR THIS WEEK • To understand the needs of participants • To being to share my 20+ years experience of crime and justice statistics • To open an e-mail link for any who wish to keep in contact (p.r.smit@minjus.nlprsmit@pipe.nl )

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. STRENGTHENING JUSTICE & HOME AFFAIRS STATISTICS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS 2009-2011

  10. 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

  11. 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: • Preparation of draft Programme Guidelines • Feedback from project countries / territories • Discussion and adoption at First Regional Workshop • One output: • Programme Guidelines adopted

  12. 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: • Training to be carried out by international experts together with national focal points and national counterparts • Training delivered to police, prosecution, courts, and institutions in areas of migration / asylum / visa

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE PROGRAMME GUIDELINES

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