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The National Statistical Office of the Dominican Republic takes on the challenge of improving security and justice statistics.

unodc — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:36:50 +0000

April 11.- Mrs. Miositis Rivas, Director of the National Statistics Office (ONE) said that the accompaniment of the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence will strengthen the professional capacities of the ONE in the field of statistics on security, crime and criminal justice, for the development of statistical norms and standards; and in the same sense, technically support the institutions of the National Statistical System that generate data in these areas, through administrative records.
From April 4 to 8, staff from the Center of Excellence and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI) participated in high-level meetings with various national institutions in the Dominican Republic to exchange best practices and identify priorities with respect to security, crime and criminal justice statistics.
During the meetings with senior staff of the Ministry of Interior and Police; the Supreme Court of Justice; the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development; the Attorney General’s Office; the General Directorate of Ethics and Government Integrity, as well as the Institutionality and Justice Foundation (FINJUS) and the Economic and Social Council, in addition to the Commissioner for Police Reform, information needs associated with priority national programs were reviewed.
The mission was carried out thanks to the efforts of the Ambassador of the Dominican Republic for Austria, Laura Faxas and her team, who will follow up on the next cooperation activities derived from this mission.

More information: Mission of the UNODC INEGI Center of Excellence is received and work tables are initiated.

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The Caribbean moves forward in the adoption of the ICCS with the support from the Center of Excellence

unodc — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:45:44 +0000

On February 15 and 16, the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence in Statistical Information on Government, Crime, Victimization and Justice (CoE), of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shared essential information so that the countries that integrate the CariSECURE project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) can continue the process of adopting the International Classification of Crimes for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) in their criminal justice system.

The CoE presented the progress some of the countries have made towards the harmonization of the crimes contained in their criminal codes with the standardized categories proposed in the ICCS. Common practices were highlighted, as well as areas of opportunity. The presentation of these results allowed the UNDP representative, Miguel Trim, as well as the collaborators for the CariSECURE project to express their questions and propose actions to be taken to continue advancing with the adoption of the classification.

Additionally, the CoE provided technical details to ensure that administrative records on crime not only comply with the ICCS framework, but that they can also be relevant for the United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS), an instrument that, together with ICCS, promotes the production of consistent and comparable crime statistics at the international level.

The workshop further served as a platform for the representatives of the CariSECURE countries to discuss relevant aspects of the adoption of ICCS. The CoE team pledged to keep supporting the countries in the next stages of ICCS implementation.

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The Metropolitan District of Quito brings together experts to improve its 2021 Crime Victimization Study

unodc — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:35:34 +0000

On Monday, November 15, staff from the Center of Excellence in Statistical Information on Government, Crime, Victimization and Justice participated in the “International Forum for updating and reviewing the questionnaire on victimization and perception of insecurity 2021”, organized by the Metropolitan Observatory of Citizen Security of the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ), of the General Secretary of Security and Governance of Ecuador.

The objective of this forum was for experts from the national and international community to contribute with their experience to provide comments on the questionnaire of the Victimization Study and Perception of Insecurity (EVPI) 2021 in the Metropolitan District of Quito. EVPI has been carried out in the DMQ on 9 occasions since 2008, generating indicators at the local level.

During its intervention, the Center of Excellence stressed the importance of adjusting the instrument to adopt United Nations international standards generated and promoted by UNODC regarding the implementation of a Crime Victimization Survey, such as the Latin America and the Caribbean Crime Victimization Survey Initiative (LACSI), which promotes a regional questionnaire based in the International Classification of Crimes for Statistical Purposes (UNODC; 2015) and the guidelines of the Manual on Victimization Surveys (UNECE, UNODC; 2010). Among other institutions, the Organization of American States (OAS), as a member of the LACSI Working Group, also stressed the importance of adjusting EVIP to this Initiative.

Adopting LACSI would mean that Ecuador could generate quality, reliable, timely and comparable statistical information to monitor to monitor the progress of 5 indicators of the 2030 Agenda (11.7.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.4, 16.3.1, 16.5. 1) contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities and 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

The Center of Excellence is available to provide guidance and technical assistance to the Member States of the region to implement Victimization Surveys, to understand the crime phenomenon in greater depth to take public policy decisions more effective and evidence-based to leave no one behind.

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