1. Overview of statistics on illicit trafficking in cultural property
Statistics and Surveys Section
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

2. Eleventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period
Core questionnaire (police, prosecution, courts, prisons)
Modules:
Linked to the topic of the thematic debate of the Crime Commission (for the 19th Session in 2010: protection against illicit trafficking in cultural property)
Related to one of three major topics, on rotation every three years
Trafficking in persons
Corruption
Sentencing and prisons
(for 2010: Trafficking in persons)

3. CTS data on illicit trafficking in cultural property
Police statistics on number of offences and persons arrested (or somehow brought into formal contact with the police)
Court statistics on persons convicted
on:
Illicit Trafficking (import, export of transfer) in Cultural Property
Theft of Cultural Property
Possession/handling of stolen Cultural Property
Unlawful excavation of Cultural Property

4. Number of countries responding to the CTS

5. Data on crimes related to illicit trafficking in cultural property received through the 11th CTS
Out of 50 responses received so far
16 contained police data
12 contained courts data
8 contained both
On average, countries were able to reply to one-third of the police questions and one-quarter of the courts questions

6. Frequency of responses: Police

7. Frequency of responses: Police
The question which received more data was "Theft of Cultural Property, number of offences" (14 out of 16 responding countries)
"Illicit Trafficking (import, export of transfer) in Cultural Property, number of offences" (9 out of 16).
The lowest number of responding countries (4) was observed at questions on "Possession/handling of stolen Cultural Property" both as regards number of offences and persons brought into formal contact with the police.

8. Frequency of responses: Courts

9. Frequency of responses: Courts
7 out of 12 countries provided data regarding persons convicted for "Illicit Trafficking (import, export of transfer) in Cultural Property" and "other", indicating that in many countries these crimes are dealt with under different legislation.
Only 3 countries were able to provide data on "Unlawful excavation of Cultural Property, Persons Convicted".

10. Interpol statistics on theft of cultural property
Interpol has collected data on theft of cultural property for the year 2007 and has received 46 responses.
Only 9 countries responded to both Interpol and the CTS and only 2 countries reported the same figures to both Organizations. In all other cases the figures provided to the CTS were much lower than those provided to Interpol.

11. Challenges in estimating the magnitude of the phenomenon
Sum of offences reported by 9 countries replying to both Interpol and UNODC

12. Trend in theft of cultural property in 9 countries reporting since 2003

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