JUSTICE SYSTEM CASE FLOW
DATA NOTES
Police
Police data unavailable concerning total number complaints received (and entered in General Diary).
Sentencing
Courts and Probation data mismatch governing number probation orders made (by courts) and monitored (by probation officers).
Standing Prison Population
Data collection methodology for five-year prison population trend is different than for current prison population and therefore reflect some differences in totals.
Prison Admissions/Releases
Very different data registration and collection methodologies exist between counting prison admissions and prison releases, so the large difference between the two figures for 2016 may overstate the growth in the prison population.
DATA NOTES
Key Numbers
"Investigation Completion Rate within 1 Year" is calculated by comparing new cases received during the year against total cases resolved during the year. Sometimes more cases are resolved than new cases received because some of the cases resolved were pending cases from the prior year; and therefore, there will be some instances where the completion rate exceeds 100%.
In some instances where we register "0" # accused per case for a crime that has some cases, we are referring to # of accused per "Charge Sheet Framed" not per "First Investigation Report" as accused data is only available for charge sheets framed. In a few other instances, "0" # accused where there are charge sheets framed, the "0" indicates "no data."
DATA NOTES
Police Thanas
There a few of the more than 500 police thanas with some missing data, such that Police Thana Details might, for example, indicate that there are 3 vehicles, but no police.
DATA NOTES
DLAO Applications
Because data is counted differently in calculating each, the number of Applications ACCEPTED sometimes exceeds the number of Applications RECEIVED; however, in such cases we cap Acceptance Rate at 100%.
DATA NOTES
Key Numbers
Law provides that first time offenders sentenced to less than two years are eligible for a Probation order. Bangladesh Jail Report indicates that 50% of convicted people in prison are there for less than two years. We applied that 50% figure to the total convicted prison populations of each district to come up with an estimate of the standing convicted prison population that are potentially Probation eligible.
There are a number of inconsistencies between the number of Probation Orders sentences reported by the courts and the number of Probation orders received reported by Probation. These two figures are reported in key numbers.
DATA NOTES
Admissions and Releases
Different methods are used to count prison admissions and prison releases. This is the first year that prison releases are being counted specifically and the introduction of a new accounting and a new method can result in errors which lead to a few substantial mismatches between total prison admissions and total prison releases.
Average Daily Population
The different breakdowns of the average daily population by status, age, crime, and time in prison depicted below are the result of counts by different categories. These different counts sometimes lead to errors and result in inconsistent totals, such that the total average daily population when counted by age groups might differ from the total daily population when counted by crime type.