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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (2022) Guidelines for the production of statistical data by the police. Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

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The aim of the present guidelines is to support the police in the collection, production and dissemination of high-quality statistics based on administrative data relating to crime and criminal justice. Capturing such data has four key advantages:
• Provision of detailed information about the police that improves the manageability of operations.
• Improvement of the capacity to combat crime by offering a basis for deeper insights and evidencebased decision-making while ensuring access to justice for all.
• Enhancement of public trust by calling for open data and focusing on facts, showing both policymakers and the general public what is actually happening and how the police are responding.
• Creation of a coherent framework that ensures criminal justice system data become more consistent, more comparable and more transparent, both nationally and internationally, in order to support efforts to reduce transnational crime in line with international mandates.

Basis of the present guidelines for the production of statistical data by the police
The police have three core functions related to criminal justice: i) maintaining public order; ii) preventing crime; and iii) bringing offenders to justice. There are numerous international frameworks, standards and norms that relate to how police carry out these functions. They include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials, the Kyoto Declaration and the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes, which together form the basis of the statistical framework proposed in the present guidelines for the production of statistical data.

The present guidelines propose a statistical framework that brings together administrative information with consistent definitions and classifications. The framework consists of 12 dimensions that are derived from the 3 core functions and international standards mentioned above and are supported by practical data examples from police departments around the world. The framework is meant to be aspirational as most countries will not have comprehensive data for all of the dimensions at the outset. Organizational leaders should therefore aim to progressively increase the amount of data collected in order to derive the maximum added value from the framework.

Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Guideline, Report
Drug Type
Substances (not alcohol/tobacco)
Intervention Type
Screening / Assessment
Source
Date
November 2022
Pages
97 p.
Publisher
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Corporate Creators
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Place of Publication
Vienna
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