Regional workshop on criminal justice statistics and electronic evidence

During May 14-15 2017, the iPROCEEDS Project conducted a regional workshop on criminal justice statistics and electronic evidence.

Purpose of this workshop was to acquaint the participants with the role and importance of the Statistics on cybercrime and electronic evidence, how essential it is to quantify the level of threats posed by the different forms of cybercrimes and cyber-enabled crimes, to support more efficient investigations and prosecutions and to better inform strategic decisions and policymakers.

Initially, the Cybercrime Units of the law enforcement sector from the Southeastern Europe and Turkey made presentations on reports, statistics log, collection and analysis of criminal justice, actual procedures, as well as their challenges and opportunities. They also outlined the cybercrime reporting systems, institutional framework for data and statistics collection, and the ways how the data are shared with other organizations from public and private sector.

Workshop continued with presentation on the prosecutions’ data, reports, statistics registration, collection and analysis of criminal justice – actual procedures, as well as challenges and opportunities. During their presentation prosecutors shared if their local legislation recognizes the cybercrime as a separate crime or not, they presented their cybercrime reporting systems, institutional framework for data collection and statistics, the ways how the data are shared with other organizations of the public or private sector, and actual practices and challenges.

The sector of CERT - Computer Emergency Response Teams, reported on recording criminal justice statistics, collection and analysis, current procedures - challenges and opportunities.

Also, the best international practices were presented, to include comparative approach and analysis – the Estonian model, setting methodology for statistics collection and analysis on cybercrime and electronic evidence.

This workshop was attended by judges, prosecutors, police officers from the cybercrime departments, officials from the Ministry of Justice and the Academy of Justice.