Transcript CHRIS LEWIS DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS PHASE 3 – MONTENEGRO TRAINING: INTERNATIONAL AND CO-ORDINATION Mon tenegro, 28th.

CHRIS LEWIS
DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING
INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE
WESTERN BALKANS
PHASE 3 – MONTENEGRO TRAINING:
INTERNATIONAL AND CO-ORDINATION
Mon tenegro, 28th – 29th 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
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.
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
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, US)
• Training Abu Dhabi Police on collecting and using Statistics.
• European Sourcebook on Crime and Justice Statistics, 1993-2010
• Statistical Training in Bosnia, Albania, Montenegro 2010-2011
• 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
MY PURPOSES FOR THIS WEEK
1. To understand the needs of participants
2. To begin to share my 30+ years experience of
crime and justice statistics, especially on statistical
co-ordination and international reporting.
3. To prepare for the future visits in 2011, especially
on closer co-operation between agencies.
4. To open an e-mail link for any who wish to keep in
contact ([email protected]:
[email protected])
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 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
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 I HAVE LEARNED FROM
PREVIOUS WORK - II
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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
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
o Two visits to B&H – September/November 2010
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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 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
PROGRAMME GUIDELINES RECOMMENDATIONS
INTERNATIONAL REPORTING, Sessions 1-4
# 10
# 29
# 31
# 32
It would be desirable to increase coordination with MONSTAT, in particular
with a view to include crime statistics in the Statistical Yearbook and for
international reporting of crime statistics to Eurostat
A comprehensive legal and criminological review should be undertaken to
document the consistency between criminal offence categories employed
by Montenegrin police and the data-collection categories used by Eurostat
and the UN. Any differences should be well documented in metadata and
explanations provided.
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 and the UN.
The Eurostat Focal Point for crime data at MONSTAT should work closely
with the Department for Planning, Development and Analysis at the Police
and Eurostat in order to develop a protocol for the regular collection and
reporting of crime and criminal justice data to Eurostat and the UN. The
protocol should specify the nature and content of data to be reported
PROGRAMME GUIDELINES RECOMMENDATIONS:
COORDINATION – SESSIONS 5-8
# 14
The on-going efforts to incorporate all prosecution offices, including the
Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime and Corruption, in the regular
data flow from prosecution offices to MONSTAT should be continued
with a view ensure full coverage by the end of 2010.
# 15
A joint task force of MONSTAT, the Supreme State Prosecutor and the
Ministry of Justice may be established with the task to examine and
improve the regular data flow between prosecution offices and
MONSTAT.
# 20
A joint task force of MONSTAT and the Judicial Council may be
established with the task to examine and improve the regular data flow
between administrative offices at the courts and MONSTAT and to
ensure complete coverage of all first instance courts. Consideration
could be given to the introduction of a system that requires a written
remark on data submission to be entered in the court file, before the file
can officially be closed.
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