Strengthening Justice & Home Affairs Statistics in Western Balkans

1. 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

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

3. 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.

4. 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

7. MY PURPOSES FOR THIS WEEK • To understand the needs of participants • To begin to share my 30+ years experience of crime and justice statistics, especially on statistical co-ordination and international reporting. • To prepare for the future visits in 2011, especially on closer co-operation between agencies. • To open an e-mail link for any who wish to keep in contact (chris.lewis@port.ac.uk: cglewis42@gmail.com)

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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 • Two visits to B&H – September/November 2010 • Similar to World Bank work, although Internet Training a new WB feature. This training will be openly available via the WB web site

15. 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

16. 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

17. PROGRAMME GUIDELINES RECOMMENDATIONS INTERNATIONAL REPORTING, Sessions 1-4

18. PROGRAMME GUIDELINES RECOMMENDATIONS: COORDINATION – SESSIONS 5-8