CHALLENGES AND QUALITIES

PUBLIC SECURITY INFORMATIONIN MEXICO

United Nations, February 2012

1990 - 2010 18

201

0

23Homicide Rate (per 100,000 people)

Source: INEGI

13

200

8

Diagnosis (END 2008) Lack of / slow information on subjects Last National Municipalities Survey 2002 (only for regional

development) Sporadic participation in Victimization Surveys Never done national censuses on government, public security

and justice 32 heterogeneous crime codes Sharp contrasts between federal, state and municipal levels Lack of statistical culture in government units Mistrust between different actors Dearth of information concerning violence against women Low level of public trust

Challenges

Public Security Information

Qualities

Legal Framework

Independence

Coordination

Mexican Government

Executive

Legislative

Judicial

TraditionalBranches

Bank of Mexico (Central Bank)

Federal Electoral Institute

National Human Rights Commission

National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI)

AutonomousEntities

I N E G I

PRODUCESINFORMATION

COORDINATESSYSTEM

AUTONOMOUS

Priority SystematicApproach

National System: Original Subsystems

Social and Demographic

Economic

Geographic and Environmental

Government, Public Security and Justice

New Subsystem

A specific area charged with responsibility

Deputy General Director

Systematic Approach to the production of Public Security Information

•Government•Public Security (crime)•Prosecution•Justice

4 Main components

•Functions•Resources•Performance

Institutional Capability

•Administrative Records•Surveys•Censuses•Geographic Technologies

Tools

•Center UNODC/INEGI •Statistical Conference of the

Americas•UN Statistical Commission

International Cooperation

Technical Committees

C H A I R S

Government

Ministry of Finance

Public Security

Federal PoliceCommissioner

Prosecution

General Attorney’s

Office

Justice

Federal Judicial Council

Instruments

Projects

National Municipal Census 2009, 2011

National State Censuses 2010, 2011

National Victimization and Public Security Perception Survey (ENVIPE 2011)

Continuous Public Security Perception Survey

Administrative Records

Projects

Quality of Government National Survey 2011

Federal Government Census 2012

Crime Against Business National Survey 2012

Crime Mapping

UN Statistical Commission Report on the indicators on violence against women

Statistical Conference of the Americas (ECLAC)

Regional Center of Excellence UNODC/INEGI

National Victimization and Public Security Perception

Survey 2011 (ENVIPE)

Basic Findings

National Victimization Survey (ENVIPE) 2011

78,179 households.Target population: 18 and over.2010, year of reference.Fieldwork: March to April 2011.UNODC: assistance in survey design.Substantial improvements over previous surveys.Use of a memory card with a general description of possible victimization situations. Specification of different crimes.

Methodological improvements

Previous surveys ENVIPE 2011The respondent did not receive any assistance to recall the number and type of crimes that could have experienced.

Higher certainty through the use of a memory card with a general description of possible victimization situations.

The survey only captured details of the last crime for each type.

The survey captures the details of each one of the crimes experienced, with a maximum of five for each type of crime.

The number of crimes was presented just for the State of residence of the victim.

Crimes are counted both for the State of residence and for the State in which crimes took place.

The rates of crime measures were presented as a proportion of the country total population.

The incidence rate measures are calculated with the survey’s objective population , i.e. adults aged 18 and over.

The survey design allowed only estimates by population.

The survey design allows estimates by household and population.

Prevalence

ENVIPE estimated 17,847,550 victims, 24% of the population aged 18 and over.

Previous victimization surveys estimated between 10-11 million victims for 2008-2009.

Crime incidenceThe ENVIPE estimated 22,714,967 crimes related to 17,847,550

victims. This represents a rate of 1.3 crimes per victim.

Crime costs

73.5%

23.0%

3.5%

ENVIPE estimated that the total cost of crime forhouseholds is equivalent to 1.53 % of GDP

Economic

Preventive measures

Health

ENVIPE estimated 92% crimes are either unreported or unrecorded

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Dark Figure

Perception

47% of the population considers the Navy as very effective, followed by the Army with 43%.

Center of Excellence in Statistical Information on

Government, Victimization, Crime and Justice.

UNODC-INEGI

Center of Excellence

INEGI – UNODC Cooperation Agreement (December 1, 2010)

Focus: To establish a partnership for technical cooperation between INEGI and UNODC for the development of Statistical Information on Government, Victimization, Crime and Justice.

The Center is located at INEGI Mexico City with additional facilities in Aguascalientes.

Inaugurated on May 16, 2011 by Mrs. Angela Me, UNODC, Mr. Eduardo Sojo, INEGI, and Mr. Antonio Mazzitelli, UNODC ROMEX.

Center of ExcellenceMembers of the Advisory Committee:

UNODC Section of Statistics and SurveysINEGI UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)Organization of American States (OAS)Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, (CIDE,Mexico)Michael Rand, US Department of JusticeJan Van Dijk,Tilburg’s International Victimology InstituteChile, Interior Ministry CISALVA Institute, Universidad del Valle Cali, Colombia

Center of Excellence

The Advisory Committee approved a two-year working program

Main Programmes:

Victimization SurveysCrime against businessCrime MappingCorruptionOrganized crimeCybercrime

Center of Excellence

An official website has been launched www.cdeunodc.inegi.org.mx

The Center of Excellence is promoting:The First International Conference on Government, Crime, Victimization and Justice Statistics. Aguascalientes, May 2012

Research internships are permanently available (7 international and national interns have already been recruited)

Center of Excellence

SUMMARYKey role of NSO’s as producers and

coordinators of crime statistical information

Importance of systematic approach

Relevance of international co-operation and support of international organizations

Thanks