Peru gives victims of crime a voice in order to focus its efforts to prevent crime and reduce violence

Since 2013, the Republic of Peru has a National Criminal Policy Council, from which the Interinstitutional Statistics Committee on Crime (CEIC) has been created. The CEIC aims to offer the population information through the Integrated Crime and Citizen Security Statistics System. This system is a data repository of the criminal justice system at the national level, which integrates cartographic related information to generate data up to blocks (when possible) and contributes to the country budgetary management by results.

In order to improve the products used by the National Criminal Policy Council, on 4 and 5 December, the Center of Excellence visited the facilities of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) of Peru, with the aim of providing methodological assistance in the implementation of both the International Classification of Crimes for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), and its first Specialized National Victimization Survey (ENEVIC).

The ICCS is a methodological tool that contributes to the Crime Statistics Quality by using international standards for its generation. The ENEVIC is based on the LACSI Regional Initiative and is currently finishing its field operations where the CoE had the opportunity to accompany the INEI’s staff; this survey is the product of the evolution of the Citizen Security Module, integrated into the National Survey on Budget Programs (ENAPRES). This exercise makes Peru the 6th country in Latin America to have an institutionalized national survey.

With these initiatives, Peru joins the international efforts of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to generate quality and comparable statistical information on crime and criminal justice, in order to monitor Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), especially SDG 16.

Finally, the visit was an opportunity to plan together with the INEI the 4th International Conference on Governance, Security and Justice Statistics, which will be held in the city of Lima on 4-6 June, 2018.