UNODC regularly provides global statistical series on crime, criminal justice, drug trafficking and prices, drug production, and drug use. Data produced by UNODC have multiple sources. Member States regularly submit to UNODC statistics on drugs (through the Annual Report Questionnaire) and crime and criminal justice (through the Crime Trend Survey). Other data are collected through national surveys implemented by UNODC in cooperation with national governments or are compiled from scientific literature. UNODC also applies scientific methods to maximize the comparability of the data and estimate regional and global statistics. global and regional level. Hint: Pay special attention to "Statistics on Crime" and "Statistics on Criminal Justice" and check out some of the links in the Topics section.
From their web site: "The U.S. State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (Council) is established to promote security cooperation between American private sector interests worldwide (Private Sector) and the U.S. Department of State."
INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 190 member countries.
Note: INTERPOL's International Crime Statistics are no longer being collected from member countries and previous statistics are no longer published. The decision to remove the statistics was taken as some users and some members of the media were making comparisons between countries based on these statistics, when different collection methods make such comparisons problematic.
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