Interpol Policing

KGA: INTERPOL

INTERPOL is the world's largest international policing organization. This organization helps prevent people from committing crimes in one country and using international borders as a barrier to prevent prosecution. Most countries in the world are members of INTERPOL. This organization allows foreign law enforcement authorities to work hand in hand. It also provides a main source of assistance and information. The organization has four core functions. First, there is the global police communications service. This gives policing authorities from member countries to request and submit information. As a result, policing authorities have a better way to share and access information. The second core function is maintaining and updating databases that can be accessed and used by international policing authorities. These databases contain information including notices of wanted individuals, alerts of stolen documents, and counterfeiting trends. INTERPOL'S color coded notice system can quickly and efficiently inform agencies as to the nature of a notice. INTERPOL'S third core function is to provide support in emergency situations or with regards to crimes that the organization has identified as priority areas. INTERPOL is led by a president who serves a four year term. The votes that determine who the president will be come from the General Assembly. The General Assembly is the governing body of the organization, which is composed of delegates from the member countries. The position of INTERPOL president has been held by people from all over the world. The organization is governed by a Constitution. The Constitution outlines the aims of INTERPOL and specifies its limitations. The organization maintains a website. Some of the information available to policing agencies is also available to the general public online. This includes criminal alerts, notices of successful operations, and news updates.

INTERPOL is the world's largest international police organization, with 188 member countries. Created in 1923, it has cross border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime. INTERPOL aims to facilitate international police co-operation even where diplomatic relations do not exist between particular countries. Action is taken within the limits of existing laws in different countries and in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. INTERPOL's constitution prohibits any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character. The President of INTERPOL and the Secretary General work closely together in providing strong leadership and direction to the organization. The General Assembly and the Executive Committee form the organization's Governance. General assembly is INTERPOL's supreme governing body meets annually and comprises delegates appointed by each member country. The assembly takes all important decisions related to policy, resources, working methods, finances, activities and programs. Executive Committee is a 13 member committee elected by the General Assembly, and comprises the president, three vice presidents and nine delegates covering the four regions. General Secretariat is located in Lyon, France. The General Secretariat operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and is run by the Secretary General. Officials from more than 80 countries work side by side in any of the Organization's four official languages: Arabic, English, French and Spanish. The Secretariat has seven regional offices across the world; in Argentina, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, El Salvador, Kenya, Thailand and Zimbabwe, along with Special Representatives at the United Nations in New York and at the European Union in Brussels. Each INTERPOL member country maintains a National Central Bureau staffed by national law enforcement officers. The NCB is the designated contact point for the General Secretariat, regional offices and other member countries requiring assistance with overseas investigations and the location and apprehension of fugitives.

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