Statistical Quality Assessment of the National Criminal Information System (SNIC) of the Ministry of Security of the Argentine Republic

From August 28 to 31, the Center of Excellence on Statistics on Governance, Public Safety, Victimization and Justice (CoE), with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Brazil and the Southern Cone, carried out the Statistical Quality Assessment of the National Criminal Information System (SNIC) in charge of the Undersecretariat of Criminal Statistics and the National Crime Statistics Direction from the Ministry of Security of the Argentine Republic. 

The Statistical Quality Assessment System aims to ensure methodological accuracy and adherence to the Official Statistics Fundamental Principles of United Nations on security and justice statistics, throughout the statistical production process. An exhaustive review of 124 quality requirements is made from the perspective of experts in methodology and thematic, in the process of statistical production, databases and criminal policy. To complete assessment, work was developed with officials from 23 provinces, the Autonomous Buenos Aires City, and the four Federal Forces of the Argentine Republic.

Finally, obtained results were presented to the authorities from the Ministry of Security of the Argentine Republic, special emphasis was placed on the need to work permanently to improve the SNIC and to implement a priority improvement plan, focused on the processes of formalization, open data and the dissemination of timely data, to encourage the statistical information use in several society areas.