With funding from the European Union DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS Phase three – Training DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING INSTRUMENTS FOR JUDICIAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE WESTERN BALKANS PHASE 3 – SERBIA TRAINING: INTERNATIONAL AND CO-ORDINATION Belgrade, November 2010 CHRIS LEWIS

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

With funding from the European Union D EVELOPMENT OF M ONITORING I NSTRUMENTS FOR J UDICIAL AND L AW E NFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE W ESTERN B ALKANS Phase three – Training CHRIS LEWIS – 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: 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, Training in Bosnia, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo under UNSCR : Statistics Consultant World Bank Justice, Security & Governance General Data Dissemination system (GDDS) ( Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia. Seychelles, Tanzania): Internet-based training system for developing countries 2011: Consultant governance statistics, African Dev Bank

With funding from the European Union D EVELOPMENT OF M ONITORING I NSTRUMENTS FOR J UDICIAL AND L AW E NFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE W ESTERN B ALKANS Phase three – Training MY PURPOSES FOR THIS WEEK 1.To understand better Serbian systems, what has already been done and your needs for better statistics. 2.To share my 30+ years experience of crime and justice statistics. 3.To learn from statistical successes in Serbia so I can share these with other countries. 4.To talk particularly about ways of improving prosecution and courts statistics, the link with central statistical offices and more open publication of statistics 5.To open an link for any who wish to keep in contact

With funding from the European Union D EVELOPMENT OF M ONITORING I NSTRUMENTS FOR J UDICIAL AND L AW E NFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE W ESTERN B ALKANS 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

With funding from the European Union D EVELOPMENT OF M ONITORING I NSTRUMENTS FOR J UDICIAL AND L AW E NFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE W ESTERN B ALKANS 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

With funding from the European Union D EVELOPMENT OF M ONITORING I NSTRUMENTS FOR J UDICIAL AND L AW E NFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE W ESTERN B ALKANS 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 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: Research, Guidelines: Training Advisory Steering group – Slobodan Boskovic, MOJ, Serbia. 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 o In CJ Statistics there are no harmonized systems, only a few guidelines, with no force of law. Picture of the strengths & weaknesses of data collection systems in Serbia CJ Identify gaps and needs of statistical systems in Serbia CJ It involved:  Desktop research: 7 research missions  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 agree a pilot questionnaire for the 7 countries To prioritise training needs and adopt training plans It involved: Preparation of draft Programme Guidelines Feedback from project countries / territories Discussion and adoption at First Regional Workshop Programme Guidelines were 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 Training to be carried out by international experts together with national focal points and national counterparts International & Coordination: Nov: January Police Training: Nov 2010: Feb 2011 Prosecution, courts Training: Oct 2010: Dec 2010

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

With funding from the European Union D EVELOPMENT OF M ONITORING I NSTRUMENTS FOR J UDICIAL AND L AW E NFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE W ESTERN B ALKANS Phase three – Training RECOMMENDATIONS # 7 A collaboration with the Republic Statistical Office should be considered, in particular with a view to include crime statistics in the Statistical Yearbook. # 12 The existing data flow system from each prosecution office to the Republic Statistical Office (RSO) should be reviewed to ensure full coverage of all required data on persons prosecuted. A joint task force of the RSO and the Republic Prosecutor’s Office should be formed with the task to examine and improve the regular data flow between prosecution offices and the RSO. #17 A joint task force of the Republic Statistical Office (RSO), the Supreme Cassation Court and the Ministry of Justice should be formed with the task to examine and improve the regular data flow between the registry offices at the courts and the RSO. Consideration should be give 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 D EVELOPMENT OF M ONITORING I NSTRUMENTS FOR J UDICIAL AND L AW E NFORCEMENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE W ESTERN B ALKANS Phase three – Training RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendation 22 - It is good practice for established Financial Intelligance Units worldwide to produce an Annual Report in local language and English that is made available to the interested public for download on the internet. The Statistics on judicial proceedings (person-based statistics on prosecutions and convictions) concerning anti-money laundering activities should form an integral part of the Annual Report of the APML Recommendation 23 - A comprehensive legal and criminological review should be undertaken to document the degree of consistency between criminal offence categories employed by the Serbian police and the data-collection categories used by Eurostat and the UN. Any differences should be well documented in metadata and explanations provided Recommendation 24 - 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.