GENERAL INFORMATION ON SPECIFIC TRAINING SESSION – KOSOVO (UNDER UNSCR 1244): 22ND -24TH SEPTEMBER 2010 – PAT MAYHEW
Country / Period / Training area / General training topic /General information and relevant recommendations in the PGR
/Trainers
/N. of participants
Kosovo under UNSCR 1244 / 22nd – 24th September 2010 / Police Training / Guidelines and written rules on data entry and counting; victim-offender relationships; recidivism; organised crime / General information (Source: TAR of Kosovo under UNSCR 1244): Kosovo Police (KP) is an executive agency in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The KP has 6 regional directorates, and 35 municipal police stations The Analytical Unit in the Directorate of Crime Analysis administers the ‘Kosovo Police Information System’ (KPIS) that records police crime data. The database is now somewhat outdated and a replacement is being considered.Noteworthy incidents are logged daily in municipal police stations on an ‘initial case incident’ form which is then sent to the regional directorates. Cases are then entered into KPIS, classified as a a crime, misdemeanor or other incident. All cases handled by the Organized Crime Department are recorded in the KPIS only after the case has been handed over to the prosecutor.
There are no written rules on the initial recording of criminal and other incidents. A unique ‘incident number’ is assigned to each case. This is not shared by prosecution and courts. A separate number is not assigned to a suspected offender or known perpetrator.
Priority recommendations (Source: Programme Guidelines for Kosovo under UNSCR 1244):
N. 1: Written rules on the initial recording of crime incidents and persons suspected of crimes should be elaborated and disseminated to all police stations. These rules should reflect relevant standards and formalise practice within Kosovo to ensure full recording of all required information at the initial stage.
N. 2: Information recorded in the ‘initial case incident’ form and KPIS should be supplemented by records on offender-victim relationship and on recidivism.
N. 3: Consideration should be given whether KPIS should include a specific field identifying organized crime cases in accordance with relevant international and regional definitions, as well as the Organized Crime Section of the Kosovo Police that is responsible.
N. 8: Crime categories used for reporting should be reviewed in light of those used in regional and international reporting. In addition to existing statistical breakdowns by ethnicity, reported statistics on criminal offenders should be disaggregated by crime type, age, sex and citizenship. Statistics on victims of crime should also be disaggregated by crime type, age, sex, citizenship and victim-offender relationship.
N. 9: Published statistics should be accompanied by interpretations of statistical patterns and trends as well as detailed metadata. More extensive use of the internet for the dissemination of detailed crime statistics in standard tabulations should be considered / Pat Mayhew,
Miroslav Prljevic,
Giulia Mugellini /
20 police officers
DETAILED TRAINING AGENDA - KOSOVO (UNDER UNSCR 1244) – DAY 1 – 22ND SEPTEMBER 2010
Date / Time / Specific topics / Relevant documents and participation neededWednesday 22nd September 2010 / 14:00 – 15:00 / [1] Welcome and Introduction
1 Introductions
2 Where this training fits into the CARDS project
3 How the sessions are organised (with list of Programme Guidelines recommendations and how these will be dealt with)
/ - Handout # 1: Excerpt from Programme Guidelines for Kosovo under UNSCR 12 44 recommendations (1, 2, 3, 8, 9)- Participants should be ready to introduce themselves for Topic 1
15:00 – 15:15 / Break
15.15 – 16.30 / [2] Overview of reports of police data at international and national level
1 Need for valid data and common standards
2 Main international compilations of police figures
- United Nations- European Sourcebook
- Eurostat – Statistics in Focus
3 Two examples of national reports:
- England & Wales;
- New Zealand
4 Introduction to suggested Regional Indicators and Pilot Data Collection Exercise / - Doc. N. 1: UNODC-HEUNI, 2010 International Statistics on Crime and Justice (pdf available) - FOCUS ON: Chapter 2 “Trends in Police Recorded Crime”, pp. 21-47
- Doc. N. 2: European Sourcebook, 2010 ( pdf available) – FOCUS ON: Chapter 1 “Police Statistics”, pp. 25-125
- Doc. N. 3: Eurostat, Statistics in Focus 36 / 2009 ( pdf available)
- Doc. N. 4: Eurostat, 2009 Offence Definitions and Explanatory Notes (pdf available)
- Doc. N. 5: England & Wales Crime Statistics (pdf available) – FOCUS ON: Chapter 1 “Overview”, pp. 1-9
- Doc. N. 6: New Zealand Police Statistics (pdf available)
- Handout # 2: List of Regional Indicators relevant to the police only (for Session 5)
- Handout # 3: Pilot Data Collection Exercise (for Session 5)
DETAILED TRAINING AGENDA - KOSOVO (UNDER UNSCR 1244) – DAY 2 – 23RD SEPTEMBER 2010
Thursday 23rd September 2010
/9:00 – 10:30
/ [3] Written rules for recording and counting crimes and suspects1 What consistency in recording is there without written rules?
2 What are the main rules to be considered (Rec.1)? Particular issues are:
a. The principal offence rule
b. Multiple offences
c. Multiple offenders and suspects
3 Resource and training implications of written rules / - Doc. N. 7: M.F. Aebi, 2008, Measuring the influence of statistical counting rules on cross-national differences in recorded crime (pdf available)
- Doc N. 8: Home Office General Counting Rules (pdf available). [Further information is at http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/countrules.html
- Handout # 4: Counting Rules in Europe, 2007
- Participants should be ready to contribute to this session.
10:30 – 10:45
/ Break10:45 – 12.00
/ [4] Particular issues from the recommendations1 Victim-offender relationships (Rec. 2, 8)
2 Reporting on ethnicity and citizenship (Rec. 8) - offenders and victims
3 Recidivism of offenders (Rec. 2) – how feasible?
4 An organised crime ‘marker’ (Rec. 3) – how feasible? / - Handout # 5: Two examples of victim-offender relationships
- Handout # 6: ‘Nationality’ in the Judicial Statistics for Kosovo under UNSCR 1244
- Handout # 7: Definitions of organised crime
- Participants should be ready to contribute to this session.
12:00 – 13:30
/ Lunch13:30 – 14:45
/ [5] Overview of current reports, Regional Indicators and the Pilot Data Collection Exercise1 Overview of current reports
2 Current reports in terms of the Regional Indicators Pilot Data Collection Exercise / - Handout # 2: List of Regional Indicators relevant to the police
- Handout # 3: Pilot Data Collection Exercise
- Participants need to be able to discuss the Annual Police Report, and the monthly and annual (unpublished) reports to the Ministry of Interior Affairs
14:45 – 15:00
/ Break15:00 – 16:15
/ [6] Publication of results, analysis and interpretation1 How are the current publications received?
- What tables are most needed, used and liked?
- What are the main problems in compiling them? How can these be avoided?
2 How feasible is internet publication?
3 How feasible is publication in English?
4 Do the current publications match different user requirements?
5 Ways forward with analysis and interpretation / - Doc N. 9: UN Manual for the Development of a System of Criminal Justice Statistics (pdf available) – CHAPTER VI, ANNEX B & F
- Participants should be ready to contribute to this session
DETAILED TRAINING AGENDA - KOSOVO UNDER UNSCR 1244 – DAY 3 – 24th SEPTEMBER 2010
Date / Time / Specific topics / Documents suggested and participation neededFriday 24th September 2010
/9:00 – 10:00
/ [7] Victimisation surveys1 The purpose of victimisation surveys
2 Strengths and limitations
3 International comparative exercises (ICVS, ICVS-II, Eurostat survey in 2013, Corruption Survey) / - Handout # 8: Outline of the current draft of the 2013 Eurostat survey questionnaire
- Handout # 9: ICVS-II outline questionnaire
- Handout # 10: Western Balkans Corruption Survey – victimisation questions
10:00 – 10:15
/ Break10:15 – 12:00
/ [8] Round-up and work planning1 Summary of previous sessions
2 Issues that were felt were not adequately discussed or agreed (for future training)
3 Agree and define goals for the short-term and long-term
4 Define deadlines for some short-term goals, and define steps to implement these.
5 Define deadlines for long-term goals, and define actors, steps, resources and funding to implement these / - A summary of points from relevant previous sessions will be prepared during training (Topic 1)
- Participants need to contribute to this session as fully as possible so that :
o The summary of previous sessions is agreed (Topic 1)
o Issues for further training are clearly identified (Topic 2)
o There is a definite forward plan (Topics 4 & 5)
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