INTERPOL

An Overview
OVERVIEW
• INTERPOL‘s full name is the International Criminal Police Organization.
• It has 195 member countries, and it helps police in to work together to make
the world a safer place.
• INTERPOL is the world‘s largest international police organization.
• 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 crimes against humanity, child
pornography, drug trafficking and production, political corruption, copyright
infringement, and white-collar crime. The agency also facilitates co-operation
among national law enforcement institutions through criminal databases
and communications networks.
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INTERPOL Is not a police force. It is the machinery for international
Police cooperation and communication. The principles on which Interpol‘s
function have stood the test of time. It has become clear that the organization
cannot have teams of detectives with supranational powers who travel around
investigating cases in different countries. International police cooperation is the
coordinated action of the member countries‘ police forces, all of which
supplyand request information and services.
The INTERPOL is comprised of the following bodies:
A. General Assembly
B. Executive Committee
C. General Secretariat
D. National Central Bureaus
E. Adviser
F. CCF
A. General Assembly
• The General Assembly is INTERPOL‘s supreme governing body, comprising
representatives from each of our member countries. It meets once a year and each
session lasts around four days.
• Each member country may be represented by one or several delegates who are
typically chiefs of police and senior ministry officials.
• Its purpose is to ensure that INTERPOL‘s activities correspond to the needs of
member countries. It does this by determining the principles and measures for the
Organization to reach its objectives, and by reviewing and approving the programme
of activities and financial policy for the coming year.
• In addition, the General Assembly elects the members of the Executive Committee,
the governing body which provides guidance and direction in between sessions of
the Assembly.
• On the agenda each year are also the major crime trends and security threats facing
the world.
• The General Assembly takes decisions in the form of Resolutions. Each member
country represented has one vote. The decision-making process is made by either
a simple or two-thirds majority, depending on the subject matter. These
Resolutions are public documents and available from 1960 to the current date.
• As the largest global gathering of senior law enforcement officials, the General
Assembly also provides an important opportunity for countries to network and
share experiences.
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