International Criminal Police Organization -

INTERPOL

Facilitating international police cooperation.

How does INTERPOL work?

•It provides investigative resources to its member countries and their law enforcement officials. Resources include :

•INTERPOL actions are 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.

a secure communications network and databases containing information supplied by its member countries on wanted persons, persons with criminal histories, persons involved in criminal activity, missing persons, stolen and lost passports and travel documents, stolen vehicles, and other law enforcement information

Core Functions•It helps to create a safer world by supporting law enforcement agencies worldwide to combat crime. It has four core functions:

1. Secure global police comns: INTERPOL’s global police communications system, known as I-24/7, enables police in all member countries to request, submit and access vital data instantly in a secure environment.

2. Data services and databases for police: INTERPOL provides law enforcement officials in the field with emergency support and operational activities, especially in its priority crime areas. A Command and Co-ordination Centre operates 24 /7 and can deploy an Incident Response Team (IRT) to the scene of a serious crime or disaster.

Core Functions……

3. Support to police services: Member countries have direct and immediate access to a wide range of databases including information on known criminals, fingerprints, DNA profiles and stolen or lost travel documents. INTERPOL also disseminates critical crime-related data through a system of international notices.

4. Police training and development: INTERPOL provides focused police training initiatives with the aim of enhancing the capacity of member countries to effectively combat transnational crime and terrorism. This includes sharing knowledge, skills and best practices in policing and establishing global standards

Facts and Figures

•Estd in 1923, as the International Criminal Police Commission and adopted its telegraphic address as its common name in 1956.

•The organization's HQ is in Lyon, France.

•Membership- 188 countries

•Members provide finance of around $59 million through annual contributions.

•It is the second largest intergovernmental organization after the United Nations.

Priority Crime Areas1. Drugs and criminal organizations: Tackling the growing problem of drug abuse and trafficking, often linked to other crimes.

2. Financial and High-tech Crime: Combating counterfeiting, payment card fraud, intellectual property and cyber-crime.

3. Fugitives (apprehension of wanted persons): Tracing fugitives, who threaten public safety and undermine criminal justice systems.

4. Public safety and terrorism: Countering terrorism, which threatens public safety and world security.

5. Trafficking in human beings: Fighting abuse and exploitation of people, which breach human rights and destroy lives.

6. Corruption: 'Working together towards a corruption-free world by promoting and defending integrity, justice and the rule of law.’

INTERPOL OrganizationHQ-France

General Assembly-188

Executive Cttee

Secretary General

Regional offices-7; Covers 4 regions

Special Representative

in UN and EU

President-1Vice Presidents-3Members-9

The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL

Structure

General Assembly (GA) - INTERPOL’s supreme governing body, it 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 – This 13-member committee is elected by the GA, and comprises the president, three vice-presidents and nine delegates covering the four regions.

INTERPOL•Co-operation: 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.

•Constitution: It prohibits ‘any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character.’

•INTERPOL’s Leadership : The President of INTERPOL and the Secretary General work closely together in providing strong leadership and direction to the Organization.

General Secretariat – It is located in Lyon, France. It operates 24/7 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;

-Special Representatives at the United Nations in New York and at the European Union in Brussels.

•South America: Argentina, El Salvador

•Africa: Cote d Ivorie, Cameroon, Kenya and Zimbabwe

•Asia: Thailand

•INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) has recently been established in Singapore with functions to build operational police capacity, innovation and research, and global partnership with international organization, governments, public and private sector.

Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (CCF) – this is an independent body whose mandate is threefold:

National Central Bureaus (NCB) - 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.

Advisers – these are experts in a purely advisory capacity, who may be appointed by the Executive Committee and confirmed by the GA.

(1) to ensure that the processing of personal information by INTERPOL complies with the Organization's regulations, (2) to advise INTERPOL on any project, operation, set of rules or other matter involving the processing of personal information.(3) to process requests concerning the information contained in INTERPOL's files.

Focused Work

Crimes against children

Crimes against Humanity

Environmental Crimes

Intellectual property Crime

Finger Prints

DNA Profiling

Disaster victim identification

Stolen Works of Art

INTERPOL Notices

•Training

•Vehicle Crime

•Fusion Task force

•Media Room

•Speeches

•I-24/7

•Governance

•Member states Comd and Co-ord Centre

US-INTERPOLMISSION

INTERPOL Washington, U.S National Central Bureau (USNCB) is the official U.S. representative to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) as designated by the U.S. Attorney General. USNCB serves as the national point of contact for INTERPOL matters and coordinates international investigative cooperation between INTERPOL’s 188 member countries and the more than 18,000 federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies in the United States.

WHO WE ARE

USNCB is co-managed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and staffed with sworn law enforcement personnel detailed from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies who work side by side with full-time DOJ employees serving as analysts, translators, technicians and administrators.

INTERPOL provides investigative resources to its member countries and their law enforcement officials. These resources include a secure communications network and databases containing information supplied by its member countries on wanted persons, persons with criminal histories, persons involved in criminal activity, missing persons, stolen and lost passports and travel documents, stolen vehicles, and other law enforcement information.

INTERPOL is an international organization whose mission is to facilitate the exchange of police information and promote cooperation and assistance between law enforcement authorities of its 188 member countries, including the United States.

INTERPOL SERVICES & NOTICE PROGRAM

INTERPOL administers a system of international lookout/advisory notices to assist law enforcement authorities of INTERPOL’s member countries. The notices, color coded to designate their specific purposes, are issued by INTERPOL’s General Secretariat in Lyon, France, at the request of member countries, and are distributed to member countries and their appropriate law enforcement officials. USNCB is responsible for seeking the issuance of all INTERPOL notices on behalf of U.S. authorities, and alerting U.S. authorities to the existence of INTERPOL notices issued by other countries. INTERPOL Red, Blue and Green notices, in particular, have demonstrated themselves to be very effective in locating and tracking high-profile subjects of interest to law enforcement (e.g., known or suspected terrorists, consolidated priority organization targets, sexual predators and human traffickers).

WHOM DO THEY SERVE

The United States National Central Bureau (USNCB), a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, serves as the point of contact for all INTERPOL matters involving the United States and its state, local and federal law enforcement officials.

The USNCB transmits requests for international investigative assistance to and from law enforcement officials in the United States and those in the other 187 INTERPOL member countries.

Assistance Provided by The USNCB

The USNCB provides assistance, without charge, to all U.S. federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, as well as to police authorities in other INTERPOL member countries seeking assistance from the U.S. law enforcement community. The USNCB is operational 24/7.The USNCB provides a variety of services to the U.S. law enforcement community including, but not limited to:•Requests for criminal investigative assistance for both domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies •Secure communications with police officials in 185 countries •Information from INTERPOL’s Databases, including the equivalent of the “International NCIC” with information on persons wanted in 187 countries, Stolen and Lost Travel Documents, Stolen Vehicles, DNA, and other criminal law enforcement information •Criminal History information and Record Checks from member countries •Tracing and locating fugitives wanted for prosecution and to serve sentences •Tracing and locating missing persons or abducted children •International fingerprint and DNA checks •Weapons and vehicle traces •Assisting with border security •Disaster victim identification •Locating stolen art and artifacts

Membership in INTERPOL

•Article 4, countries wishing to join INTERPOL after 13 December 1956, must submit a request for membership to the SG. Membership is subject to approval of the request by a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly.

• Article 45 of INTERPOL’s Constitution, the countries that were members of the International Criminal Police Commission before the 1956 Constitution were given membership of INTERPOL “unless they declare through the appropriate governmental authority that they cannot accept”

•Nepal joined INTERPOL on 27 Sept 1967, after the 36th GA , Kyoto voted by 2/3 rd majority. Both, NP and APF take part in the GA.

INTERPOL-Nepal

•NCB-Nepal coordinates activities about wanted fugitives, kidnapped children, terrorism, illegal drug trafficking, and other criminal activities to assist police investigations around the world.

Objectives•To facilitate cross border police co-operation, support and assist all organizations, authorities & services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crimes and facilitate international police co-operation even where diplomatic relations between particular countries do not exist.

How does it work?•It uses INTERPOL's secure global police communication system called I-24/7 to share information, coordinate police activities and access INTERPOL databases.

Head of NCB-Nepal is the IGP of Nepal Police. He is the focal point of contact and the representative of Nepal. He has been annually participating in the General Assembly of INTERPOL since 1967.

Interpol and Nepal•In 2010, Police chiefs of 188 member countries attended the assembly. It focused on:

-Action against environmental crime, organized crime, human and drug trafficking, promotion of Red Corner Notice to track down criminals, border security, cross-border crime, disaster preventive measures and rescue operation.

-Action on the protection of abducted children, war crime, crime against humanity, ethnic clean-up, Interpol policy and mutual cooperation among the countries on shared concerns.

•Currently, INTERPOL is trying to boost up security at Intl Airport, KTM.

-Ways to tackle intl terrorism and crime, identification of absconding criminals and their arrest and crime investigation in the 21st century.

National Central Bureau (NCB) – Nepal

•The NCB – Nepal was established in 1967. It ensures liaison with various departments in the country, those bodies in other countries serving as NCB and the INTERPOL's General Secretariat.

•NCB - Kathmandu is staffed with law enforcement officers serving as analysts, technicians and administrators.

•NCB-Kathmandu serves as the national point of contact for all INTERPOL matters in Nepal, and coordinates international investigative cooperation between INTERPOL’s 190 member countries throughout the world and local law enforcement agencies in Nepal.

Functions of NCB-Nepal

•Legal affairs: study and advise on legal issues such as extradition, deportation, etc.

•Intelligence exchange with IPSG and other NCBs.

•Preparation and execution of INTERPOL notices.

•Co-ordination with national Law Enforcement Agencies, Ministries, Diplomatic agencies and relevant NGOs

•Preparation and participation in GA, Asian Regional Conference, Asian Contact Officers Meeting, & Indo-Nepal Interpol Officers' Meeting and other meeting and conferences as deemed necessary.

•Intelligence analysis.

•Criminal record.

Services and Assistance of NCB

-Criminal investigative assistance for both domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies.-Secure communications with INTERPOL General Secretariat and police officials in 190 countries-Criminal History information and Record Checks from Diplomatic Missions and member countries-Tracing and locating fugitives wanted for prosecution and to serve sentences-Tracing and locating missing persons or abducted children-Assisting with border security-Locating stolen art and artifacts-Environmental and wildlife crimes.

•It is operational 24/7 and provides assistance to all law enforcement agencies as well as to police authorities in other INTERPOL member countries. The services and assistance provided by NCB-Kathmandu include (but not limited to) the following:

The request for assistance from NCB-Nepal must be in writing and come from a bonafide law enforcement agency.

PLA and INTERPOL

•Once the RCN is issued, member countries are obliged to deport the "criminals" accused to the country where the case against them is originated.

•On Aug 12, 2002, the INTERPOL had issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against eight top Maoist leaders from Nepal, including Prachanda and Baburam . RCN is an arrest warrant in all the 179 Interpol member countries.

•NP received more names from the INTERPOL than they had expected including military commanders of the PLA.