INTERPOL

 The International Criminal Police Organization ( official abbreviation ICPO; French:

Organization Internationale de Pulis Criminelle), is commonly known as Interpol.
 It is the world’s largest international police organization, with 7 regional bureaus
worldwide and a National Central Bureau in all 194 member states

 Interpol provides investigative support, expertise, and training to law

enforcement worldwide, focusing on three major areas of transnational crime:
terrorism, cybercrime, and organized crime. Its broad mandate covers virtually
every kind of crime including crime against humanity, child pornography, drug
trafficking and production, political corruption, intellectual property
infringement, and white-collar crime. The agency also facilitates cooperation
among national law enforcement institutions through criminal databases and
communications networks.
 Contrary to popular belief, Interpol is not a law enforcement agency
 It is governed by a General Assembly composed of all member countries, which
elects the Executive Committee and the President ( currently Kim Jong Yang of
South Korea) to supervise and implement Interpol’s policies and administration.
  The Secretariat is led by the Secretary-General, currently Jurgen Stock, the
former deputy head of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office.
INTERPOL VISION
 “connecting police for a safer world”. Our vision is a world where law enforcement
professionals can securely access, share, and communicate vital police information
whenever and wherever needed, thereby supporting the security of the world’s citizens.

INTERPOL CORE VALUES

• Preventing terrorism
• Securing borders
• Protecting citizens, especially vulnerable communities
• Making cyberspace safer for businesses and infrastructure
• Countering corruption
• Dismantling trafficking networks
• Supporting environmental security

INTERPOL LOGO
 OICP – ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONALE DE POLICE CRIMINELLE
ICPO- INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION

The current emblem of Interpol was adopted in 1950 and according to their website has the
following symbolism:
- The globe indicates worldwide activity
- The olive branches represent peace
- The sword represents police action
The scales signify justice

 INTERPOL HISTORY
• The idea is born
 While INTERPOL was officially created in 1923, the idea was born at the first
International Criminal Police Congress held in Monaco in April 1914. At the invitation of
Prince Albert I of Monaco, lawyers and police officials from 24 countries discussed
cooperation in solving crimes, identification techniques, and extradition.
The meeting was highly successful, but plans had to be put on hold due to the outbreak
of the First World War.
• 1923 – the foundations are laid
The idea of an international police body was revived by Dr Johannes Schober, President
of the Vienna Police. He convened the second International Criminal Police Congress in Vienna,
Austria in 1923. It was attended by representatives from 20 countries.
The headquarters of the Vienna Police, where the second International Criminal Police
Congress was held.
The participating countries were:
• Austria
• Czechoslovakia
• Denmark
• Egypt
• Fiume
• France
• Germany
• Greece
 • Hungary
• Italy
• Japan
• Latvia
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Romania
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• United States of America
• Yugoslavia

On 7 September 1923, the meeting agreed to establish the International Criminal Police
Commission (ICPC).
The overall aim of the ICPC was to provide mutual assistance between police in different
countries. Its structure and aims were documented in a series of Resolutions (available to
download in the Related Documents below, in German and French).

Among the main themes were:

• Direct police contact;
• Cooperation on arrests and extradition;
• Common languages;
• Creation of offices for counterfeit currency, cheques, and passports;
• Fingerprinting techniques and records.
Johannes Schober, President, and Dr Oskar Dressler, Secretary, of the International Criminal
Police Commission.
1956 – a modernized INTERPOL
- In 1956, The ICPC became the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO-
INTERPOL) with the adoption of a modernized constitution. The Organization became
autonomous by collecting dues from member countries and relying on financial investments.
- A number of historical books and other scholarly publications which include in-depth
details about the origins of the International Criminal Police Commission, the Nazi takeover, and
the rebuilding of INTERPOL as the International Criminal Police Organization are available.

THE INTERPOL COMPRISES OF THE FOLLOWING:

I. General Assembly
II. Executive Committee
III. General Secretariat
IV. National Central Bureaus
V. Advisers
VI. The commission for the control INTERPOL’s Files

The General Assembly and the Executive Committee form the organization’s governance.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
- Supreme governing body, it meets annually and comprises delegates appointed by each
member country
- Takes all important decisions related to policy, resources, working methods, finances,
activities and programs
- Also elects the organization’s executive committee.

INTERPOL’s select deliberative organ. It comprises:

- President
- 3 vice presidents
- 9 delegates

GENERAL SECRETARIAT
- The former Filipino President of INTERPOL in 1980-1984 – JOLLY R. BUGARIN
- Located in Lyon, France, the General Secretariat operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year.

Performs the following functions:

 Coordinates the international activities of member countries
 Holds library of international criminal records
 Organizes regular meetings at which delegates can exchange information on
police work.

NATIONAL CENTRAL BUREAUS

- Staffed by national law enforcement officers
- designated contact point for the General Secretariat for all INTERPOL Operations,
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 General Assembly.

COMMISSION FOR THE CONTROL OF INTERPOL’S FILES (CCF)

This is an independent body mandate is threefold:
(1) to ensure that the processing of personal information by the INTERPOL complies with the
Organization’s regulations
(2) to advice INTERPOL on any project, operation, set of rules or other matter involving the
processing of personal information and
(3) to process requests concerning the information contained in INTERPOL’s files.

INTERPOL’S FOUR CORE VALUES

1. Secure Global Police Communications Services
2. Operational Data Services and Databases for police
3. Operational Police Support Services
4. Training and Development

Secure Global Police Communication Services

- INTERPOL subsequently designed and implemented a state of the art global
communications system for the law enforcement community, called “ I-24/7” . I stands
for INTERPOL; 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

I-24/7- network that enables investigators to access INTERPOL’s range of criminal databases.

Operational Data Services and Database for Police

- A broad range of global databases, incorporating key information such as names of
criminals and suspected individuals, fingerprints, photographs, DNA profiles, requests
for wanted persons, lost and stolen travel documents, stolen vehicles and weapons
related to criminal cases.
 Stolen and Lost Travel Documents
 Child sexual exploitation images
 Stolen Works of Art
 Firearms
 DNA Profiles
 Fingerprints
 Notices
 Stolen Motor Vehicles
 Fusion Task Force
 Stolen and Lost Travel Documents
 Child sexual exploitation images
 Stolen Works of Art
 Firearms
 DNA Profiles
 Fingerprint
 Notices
 Stolen Motor Vehicles

Operational Police Support Services

- Making available INTERPOL’s know-how, expertise and best practices to all authorities,
services and organizations world-wide
- Support Services also include the collection, analysis and evaluation of information

INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAM (IRT)

- Disaster
- Crimes

Training and Development

- Help official s in INTERPOL’s 190 member countries to improve their operational
effectiveness, enhance their skills and build their capacity to address the increasingly
globalized and sophisticated nature of criminality today.

CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS - the identification of and provision of insight into the
relationship between crime data and other potentially relevant data with a view to police
and judicial practice.

OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS
- aims to achieve a specific law enforcement outcome
- this might be arrest, seizure or forfeiture of assets or money gained from criminal
activities, or the disruption of a criminal group.
- It has a more immediate benefit.

STRATEGIC ANALYSIS – intended to inform higher level decision making and the benefits are
realized over the longer term. It is usually aimed at managers and policy-makers rather than
support senior decision-makers in setting priorities to prepare their organization to be able
to deal with emerging criminal issues.

THE EIGHT NOTICES

1. Red Notice – to seek the arrest or provisional arrest of wanted persons with a view to
extradition
2. Blue Notice- to collect additional information about a person’s identity or activities in
relation to a crime
3. Green Notice- to provide warnings and criminal intelligence about persons who have
committed criminal offense and are likely to repeat these crimes.
4. Yellow Notice – to help locate missing persons, often minors, or to help identify persons
who are unable to identify themselves
5. Black Notice -to seek information on unidentified bodies
6. Orange Notice- to warn police, public entities and other international organizations about
potential threats from disguised weapons, parcel bombs and other dangerous materials.
7. Purple Notice – to provide information on modus operandi, procedures, objects, devices
and concealment methods used by criminals
8. INTERPOL United Nations Special Notice – issued for groups and individuals who are the
targets of UN sanctions against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE USED BY THE INTERPOL
- Arabic
- English
- Spanish
- French

SAMPLES OF INTERPOL NOTICE SYSTEM

 THE FUSION TASK FORCE (FTF) – to identify members of criminal groups involved in international
terrorist activity through the establishment of a network of law enforcement contact officers.
 CRIMINAL ANALYSIS UNIT – this service includes the collection, analysis, evaluation, exchange,
and storage of information which INTERPOL’s headquarters receives from its member countries.
A. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
 It plays a key role in INTERPOL’s overall mission to promote international police cooperation.
 The aim is to help officials in INTERPOL’s 194 member countries to improve their operational
effectiveness, enhance their skills and build their capacity to address the increasingly globalized
and sophisticated nature of criminality today.
THE ROLE OF INTERPOL IN CRIME CONTROL
DRUG CONTROL
 Professional and technical expertise in drug control within the INTERPOL framework.
 Acts as clearing-house for the collection, collation, analysis and dissemination of drug-related
information.
  Monitor also drug situation on global scale.
 To serve as a main source of professional and technical advice on narcotic matters such as the
General assembly, Executive Committee and National Central Bureaus.
CHILDREN AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
 This deals on the dwelling on the plight of women and children trafficked into prostitution and
sweatshop work.
ENVIRONMENT CRIME
 Criminals violating criminal national and International put in place to protect the environment.
INTERPOL’S CONTRIBUTION TO COMBATING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CRIME
• INTERPOL’S CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
• Definition: the identification and provision of insight into the relationship between crime
data and other potentially relevant data with a view to police and judicial practice.
• Purpose: Deals with more effectively with uncertainly, to provide timely warning of
threats, and to support operational activity by analyzing crime.

• Divisions: Operational analysis - achieve a specific law enforcement outcome.

Strategic Analysis - inform higher level decision making and the benefits are
realized over the longer term.
INTERPOL’S FIGHT AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
• Planned new identity travel document database designed to help customs, border patrols
and immigration service share police information and verify the authenticity of
documents;
• The feasibility of setting up a special aviation database;
• The financing of terrorism expansion of anti-money laundering measures and studies of
alternative remittance systems.
WHAT IS INTERPOL DOING TO COMBAT TERRORISM?
INTERPOL’s role is twofold:
 To prevent acts of terrorism and, if carried out,
 To ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice.
HOW INTERPOL CAN PREVENT TERRORISM?
• Information about suspect individuals and groups, modus operandi, evidence from the
scenes of the crime and the use of the new technologies by terrorist groups.
• Report on other crimes which may be linked to terrorism.
• Intervene at the national level by monitoring suspicious financial transactions linked to
terrorist activity.
HOW INTERPOL CAN HELP AFTER A TERRORIST ACT HAS BEEN DONE?
• Member countries are required to send INTERPOL full particulars concerning the nature
of that incident.
• Report to INTERPOL on all the investigative developments.
 •Once in receipt of particulars concerning suspects, INTERPOL can instantly issue
international notices for fugitive terrorists whose arrest is sought by member countries.
NALECC SUB-COMMITTEE ON INTERPOL STRUCTURE OF NCB-MANILA

INTERPOL MANILA, PHILIPPINE CENTER ON TRANSNATIONAL CRIME (PTCT)

• Located at PCTC 2nd Flr, PNP Computer Service Bldg. Camp Crame, Quezon City 1111
Philippines.
• Region: Asia/South Pacific
• National Central Bureau: Manila
• Member Since: June 12, 1952
• INTERPOL Manila works around the clock and uses English as its main working
language.
INTERPOL MANILA, PHILIPPINE CENTER ON TRANSNATIONAL CRIME (PTCT)
• INTERPOL Manila is an integral part of the PTCT. Its main duties include:
1. Monitoring and coordinating law enforcement activities relating to transnational crimes
affecting the Philippines;
2. Operating and maintaining an operations center to serve as the focal point for
international cooperation on transnational crime for all law enforcement agencies in the
Philippines;
3. Acting as a NALECC Sub Committee in the monitoring of crime and activities which
threaten national security and the economy.
NATIONAL CENTRAL BUREAU – INTERPOL MANILA
 • National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) as its focal point.
• INTERPOL Manila has undergone changes, which enable it to confront the challenges of
the times.
MISSION AND FUNCTION OF INTERPOL NCB-MANILA
• Monitor and coordinate all activities of all law enforcement agencies relative to
transnational crime committed against or affecting the Philippines;
• Maintain records and minutes of all meetings of NCB - INTERPOL Manila.
• Operate and maintain the operation center of NCB - INTERPOL Manila as the focal
point for international crimes for all law enforcement agencies in the Philippines; and
• The NCB - INTEROL Manila also functions as a sub-committee of the NALECC for the
monitoring of the sensitive activities of the latter.

WHO ARE THOSE MEMBERS OF INTERPOL?

Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Andorra | Angola | Anguilla (UK) | Antigua & Barbuda |
Argentina | Armenia | Aruba | Australia | Austria |Azerbaijan | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Barbados |
Belarus | Belgium | Belize | Benin | Bermuda (UK) | Bhutan | Bolivia | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Botswana | Brazil | British Virgin Islands (UK) | Brunei | Bulgaria | Burkina-Faso | Burundi |
Cambodia | Cameroon | Canada | Cape Verde | Cayman Islands (UK) | Central African Republic |
Chad | Chile | China | Colombia |Comoros | Congo | Congo (Democratic Rep.) | Costa Rica |
Croatia | Cuba | Curaçao | Cyprus | Czech Republic | Côte d'Ivoire | Denmark | Djibouti |
Dominica | Dominican Republic | Ecuador | Egypt | El Salvador | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea |
Estonia | Ethiopia | Fiji | Finland | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | France | Gabon |
Gambia | Georgia | Germany | Ghana | Gibraltar (UK) | Greece | Grenada | Guatemala | Guinea |
Guinea Bissau | Guyana | Haiti | Honduras | Hong Kong (China) | Hungary | Iceland | India |
Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland | Israel | Italy | Jamaica | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kenya |
Korea (Rep. of) | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Latvia | Lebanon | Lesotho | Liberia | Libya |
Liechtenstein | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Macao (China) | Madagascar | Malawi | Malaysia |
Maldives | Mali | Malta | Marshall Islands | Mauritania | Mauritius | Mexico | Moldova |Monaco |
Mongolia | Montenegro | Montserrat (UK) | Morocco | Mozambique | Myanmar | Oman |
Pakistan | Palestine | Panama | Papua New Guinea | Paraguay | Peru | Philippines | Poland |
Portugal | Qatar | Romania | Russia | Rwanda | Samoa | San Marino | Sao Tome & Principe |
Saudi Arabia | Senegal | Serbia | Seychelles | Sierra Leone | Singapore | Sint Maarten |Slovakia |
Slovenia | Solomon Islands | Somalia | South Africa | South Sudan (Rep. of) | Spain | Sri Lanka |
St Kitts & Nevis | St Lucia | St Vincent & Grenadines | Sudan | Suriname | Swaziland | Sweden |
Switzerland | Syria | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Thailand | Timor Leste | Togo | Tonga | Trinidad &
Tobago | Tunisia | Turkey | Turkmenistan | Turks & Caicos (UK) | Uganda | Ukraine | United
Arab Emirates | United Kingdom | United States | Uruguay | Uzbekistan | Vatican City State |
Venezuela | Vietnam | Yemen | Zambia | Zimbabwe

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