INTERPOL - INTERNATIONAL POLICE ORGANIZATION

 

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The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL (abbreviated as ICPO–INTERPOL), commonly known as Interpol, is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control. It is the world's largest international police organization. It is headquartered in Lyon, France, with seven regional bureaus worldwide, and a National Central Bureau in all 196 member states.

The organization today known as Interpol was founded on 7 September 1923 at the close of a five-day 1923 International Police Congress in Vienna as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC); it adopted many of its current duties throughout the 1930s. After coming under Nazi control in 1938, the agency had its headquarters in the same building as the Gestapo. It was effectively stagnant until the end of World War II. In 1956, the ICPC adopted a new constitution and the name Interpol, derived from its telegraphic address used since 1946.

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, intellectual property infringement, as well as 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 itself not a law enforcement agency.

Interpol has an annual budget of €142 million ($155 million), most of which comes from annual contributions by member police forces in 181 countries. It is governed by a General Assembly composed of all member countries, which elects the executive committee and the President (currently Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi of the United Arab Emirates) to supervise and implement Interpol's policies and administration. Day-to-day operations are carried out by the General Secretariat, comprising around 1,000 personnel from over 100 countries, including both police and civilians. The Secretariat is led by the Secretary-General, currently Jόrgen Stock, the former deputy head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office.

Pursuant to its charter, Interpol seeks to remain politically neutral in fulfilling its mandate, and is thus barred from interventions or activities that are political, military, religious, or racial in nature and from involving itself in disputes over such matters. The agency operates in four languages: Arabic, English, French and Spanish.

 

 

 

 

 

If you report a crime in your country to Interpol, you are required to fill out an online form.  The following is an example of a report of serious organized crime in the United Kingdom.

 

"I have reported planning crime to Sussex police a number of times since 1997. Roughly once every year I have reminded various officers who are working constables or other ranks, including once or twice their chief constable, that Wealden District Council are guilty of fraud, an ongoing offence where they have refused to correct their records, and Sussex police refuse to investigate, because, they are party to the offence. It follows that Sussex police records when combined with Wealden council's records may contain sufficient information to secure a prosecution. Where Sussex police should not have investigate planning crime in Wealden, but should have recused themselves, due to the obvious conflict of interest: R v Sussex Justices ex parte McCarthy 1924 KBD. It is alleged that Sussex police were complicit in covering up eleven cases reported to them in 1997, providing blank headed paper to officers of Wealden for those officers implicated in planning crime to write their own letter of exoneration that Sussex police would then endorse as though they had written the letter. This letter was read out at full council after it had been fraudulently procured saying there was not enough information to mount a prosecution. However, none of the eleven independent complainants was contacted by Sussex police in order to take their evidence and statements. Hence, of course their was no evidence. Because of the failure of Sussex police to investigate the criminal complaints. This is more of the same kind of corruption identified in the Horizon Post Office scandal where 700 people were wrongfully convicted. What can be done when it is the police themselves, the MPs and councillors who are the criminals being complained of. Your help would be much appreciated."

 

 

After which you will received a message like that above (10th June 2024 18:45 hrs). Reading:

 

"INTERPOL General Secretariat

You can get in touch with INTERPOL using the form below. Your message will be forwarded to the appropriate department but please note that we are unable to respond to all queries.

Thank you for your feedback." 

 

 

 

 

 


One major concern about Interpol, is that the police in member states may be just as corrupt, and/or working with the criminals, especially politically corruption in local authorities, including Members of Parliament turning a blind eye to reported crimes, and councils being particularly prone to human rights abuses, even ignoring money laundering, provided property developers build in their areas to generate Community Infrastructure Levies that are not used to improve roads or other local services, but invested overseas to bolster enhanced pensions. By way of highly organised white-collar crime. In this manner drug money and other money from human trafficking may end up being laundered, to generate rents from housing benefits (for example). It's another Great British scam. To join those like the Horizon Post Office fiasco where rather than admit to mistakes in software, they prosecuted 700 innocent people.

 

How then might Interpol deal with such reports, which would normally be reported to the local authorities? But where those authorities will not recuse (To disqualify (oneself) as judge in a particular case. Broadly: to remove (oneself) from participation to avoid a conflict of interest) themselves to retain control of the crime scene within their own computers and paper based data archives and those of the local council.

 

 

 

 

 

 



METHODOLOGY

Contrary to the common idea due to frequent portrayals in popular media, Interpol is not a supranational law enforcement agency and has no agents with arresting powers. Instead, it is an international organization that functions as a network of law enforcement agencies from different countries. The organization thus functions as an administrative liaison among the law enforcement agencies of the member countries, providing communications and database assistance, mostly through its central headquarters in Lyon. along with the assistance of smaller local bureaus in each of its member states.

Interpol's databases at the Lyon headquarters can assist law enforcement in fighting international crime. While national agencies have their own extensive crime databases, the information rarely extends beyond one nation's borders. Interpol's databases can track criminals and crime trends around the world, specifically by means of authorized collections of fingerprints and face photos, lists of wanted persons, DNA samples, and travel documents. Interpol's lost and stolen travel document database alone contains more than 12 million records. Officials at the headquarters also analyze this data and release information on crime trends to the member countries.

An encrypted Internet-based worldwide communications network allows Interpol agents and member countries to contact each other at any time. Known as I-24/7, the network offers constant access to Interpol's databases. While the National Central Bureaus are the primary access sites to the network, some member countries have expanded it to key areas such as airports and border access points. Member countries can also access each other's criminal databases via the I-24/7 system.

Interpol issues eight types of Interpol notices, seven of which are: red, blue, green, yellow, black, orange, and purple. An eighth special notice is issued at the special request of the United Nations Security Council. As of 2019, there are currently 62,448 valid Red and 12,234 Yellow notices in circulation.

In the event of an international disaster, terrorist attack, or assassination, Interpol can send an Incident Response Team (IRT). IRTs can offer a range of expertise and database access to assist with victim identification, suspect identification, and the dissemination of information to other nations' law enforcement agencies. In addition, at the request of local authorities, they can act as a central command and logistics operation to coordinate other law enforcement agencies involved in a case. Such teams were deployed eight times in 2013. Interpol began issuing its own travel documents in 2009 with hopes that nations would remove visa requirements for individuals travelling for Interpol business, thereby improving response times. In September 2017, the organization voted to accept Palestine and the Solomon Islands as members.

FINANCES

In 2019, Interpol's operating income was €142 million, of which 41 percent were statutory contributions by member countries, 35 percent were voluntary cash contributions and 24 percent were in-kind contributions for the use of equipment, services and buildings. With the goal of enhancing the collaboration between Interpol and the private sector to support Interpol's missions, the Interpol Foundation for a Safer World was created in 2013. Although legally independent of Interpol, the relationship between the two is close enough for Interpol's president to obtain in 2015 the departure of HSBC CEO from the foundation board after the Swiss Leaks allegations.

 


OFFICES

In addition to its General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, Interpol maintains seven regional bureaus and three special representative offices:

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brussels, Belgium (special representative office to the European Union)
Yaoundι, Cameroon
Abidjan, Cτte d'Ivoire
San Salvador, El Salvador
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (special representative office to the African Union)
Nairobi, Kenya
Bangkok, Thailand
New York City, United States (special representative office to the United Nations)
Harare, Zimbabwe
Interpol's Command and Coordination Centres offer a 24-hour point of contact for national police forces seeking urgent information or facing a crisis. The original is in Lyon with a second in Buenos Aires added in September 2011. A third was opened in Singapore in September 2014.

Interpol opened a Special Representative Office to the UN in New York City in 2004 and to the EU in Brussels in 2009.

The organization has constructed the Interpol Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in Singapore to act as its research and development facility, and a place of cooperation on digital crimes investigations. It was officially opened in April 2015, but had already become active beforehand. Most notably, a worldwide takedown of the SIMDA botnet infrastructure was coordinated and executed from IGCI's Cyber Fusion Centre in the weeks before the opening, as was revealed at the launch event.

MEMBER NATIONS

Afghanistan – October 2002
Albania – November 1991
Algeria – August 1963
Andorra – November 1987
Angola – October 1982
Antigua and Barbuda – October 1986
Argentina Argentina – June 1956
Armenia Armenia – November 1992
Aruba Aruba – November 1987
Australia – June 1956
Austria – June 1956
Azerbaijan – November 1992
The Bahamas – October 1973
Bahrain – September 1972
Bangladesh – October 1976
Barbados – November 1981
Belarus – September 1993
Belgium – June 1956
Belize – November 1987
Benin – September 1962
Bhutan – September 2005
Bolivia – August 1963
Bosnia and Herzegovina – November 1992
Botswana – November 1980
Brazil – October 1986
Brunei – September 1984
Bulgaria – November 1989
Burkina Faso  – September 1961
Burundi – October 1970
Cambodia – June 1956
Cameroon – September 1961
Canada – October 1949
Cape Verde Cape Verde – November 1989
Central African Republic – June 1965
Chad – September 1962
Chile – June 1956
China People's Republic of China – September 1961
Colombia – June 1956
Comoros Comoros – October 1998
Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo – September 1961
Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo – August 1963
Costa Rica Costa Rica – June 1956
Ivory Coast Cτte d'Ivoire – September 1961
Croatia Croatia – November 1992
Cuba Cuba – June 1956
Curaηao Curaηao – October 2011
Cyprus Cyprus – September 1962
Czech Republic Czech Republic – September 1993
Denmark Denmark – June 1956
Djibouti Djibouti – November 1980
Dominica Dominica – November 1981
Dominican Republic Dominican Republic – June 1956
East Timor East Timor – October 2002
Ecuador Ecuador – September 1962
Egypt Egypt – June 1956
El Salvador – December 1959
Equatorial Guinea – November 1980
Eritrea – November 1999
Estonia – November 1992
Eswatini – October 1975
Ethiopia Ethiopia – September 1958
Fiji Fiji – September 1971
Finland Finland – June 1956
France France – June 1956
Gabon – September 1961
The Gambia – October 1986
Georgia (country) Georgia – September 1993
Germany Germany – June 1956
Ghana – September 1958
Greece – June 1956
Grenada – October 1986
Guatemala – June 1956
Guinea – September 1961
Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau – November 1992
Guyana Guyana – October 1968
Haiti Haiti – June 1957
Honduras Honduras – September 1974
Hungary Hungary – November 1981
Iceland Iceland – September 1971
India India – October 1949
Indonesia Indonesia – June 1956
Iran Iran – June 1956
Iraq Iraq – September 1967
Republic of Ireland Ireland – June 1956
Israel Israel – October 1949
Italy Italy – June 1956
Jamaica Jamaica – August 1963
Japan Japan – June 1956
Jordan Jordan – June 1956
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan – November 1992
Kenya Kenya – October 1968
Kiribati Kiribati – November 2018
Kuwait Kuwait – June 1965
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan – October 1996
Laos Laos – June 1957
Latvia Latvia – November 1992
Lebanon Lebanon – June 1956
Lesotho Lesotho – September 1971
Liberia Liberia – June 1956
Libya Libya – June 1956
Liechtenstein Liechtenstein – October 1960
Lithuania Lithuania – November 1991
Luxembourg Luxembourg – June 1956
Madagascar Madagascar – September 1961
Malawi Malawi – August 1966
Malaysia Malaysia – September 1961
Maldives Maldives – September 1984
Mali Mali – October 1969
Malta Malta – September 1972
Marshall Islands Marshall Islands – September 1990
Mauritania Mauritania – September 1962
Mauritius Mauritius – October 1969
Mexico Mexico – June 1956
Moldova Moldova – September 1994
Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia – November 2021
Monaco Monaco – June 1956
Mongolia Mongolia – November 1991
Montenegro Montenegro – September 2006
Morocco Morocco – June 1957
Mozambique Mozambique – November 1989
Myanmar Myanmar – June 1956
Namibia Namibia – November 1992
Nauru Nauru – September 1971
Nepal Nepal – September 1967
Netherlands Netherlands – June 1956
New Zealand New Zealand – June 1956
Nicaragua Nicaragua – June 1965
Niger Niger – September 1964
Nigeria Nigeria – October 1960
North Macedonia North Macedonia – September 1993
Norway Norway – June 1956
Oman Oman – September 1972
Palau Palau – November 2023
Pakistan Pakistan – June 1956
State of Palestine Palestine – September 2017
Panama Panama – September 1958
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea – October 1976
Paraguay Paraguay – September 1977
Peru Peru – September 1962
Philippines Philippines – June 1956
Poland Poland – September 1990
Portugal Portugal – June 1956
Qatar Qatar – September 1974
Romania Romania – October 1973
Russia Russia – September 1990
Rwanda Rwanda – September 1974
Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis – November 1987
Saint Lucia Saint Lucia – October 1983
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – October 1985
Samoa Samoa – October 2009
Sγo Tomι and Prνncipe Sγo Tomι and Prνncipe – November 1988
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia – June 1956
San Marino San Marino – September 2006
Senegal Senegal – September 1961
Serbia Serbia – September 1956
Seychelles Seychelles – September 1977
Sierra Leone Sierra Leone – September 1962
Singapore Singapore – October 1968
Sint Maarten Sint Maarten – October 2011
Slovakia Slovakia – September 1993
Slovenia Slovenia – November 1992
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands – September 2017
Somalia Somalia – October 1975
South Africa South Africa – September 1993
South Korea South Korea – September 1964
South Sudan South Sudan – October 2011
Spain Spain – June 1956
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka – June 1956
Sudan Sudan – June 1956
Suriname Suriname – June 1956
Sweden Sweden – June 1956
Switzerland Switzerland – June 1956
Syria Syria – June 1956
Tajikistan Tajikistan – October 2004
Tanzania Tanzania – September 1962
Thailand Thailand – June 1956
Togo Togo – October 1960
Tonga Tonga – September 1979
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago – September 1964
Tunisia Tunisia – June 1957
Turkey Turkey – June 1956
Turkmenistan Turkmenistan – September 2005
Uganda Uganda – August 1966
Ukraine Ukraine – November 1992
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates – October 1973
United Kingdom United Kingdom – June 1956
United States United States – June 1956
Uruguay Uruguay – June 1956
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan – September 1994
Vanuatu Vanuatu – November 2018
Vatican City Vatican City – October 2008
Venezuela Venezuela – June 1956
Vietnam Vietnam – November 1991
Yemen Yemen – October 1976
Zambia Zambia – August 1966
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe – November 1980

 

 

 

 

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FORENSICS

 

Forensic data, such as fingerprints and DNA, is generally unique to an individual, and so can confirm a person’s identity and presence at a crime scene. Importantly, it can also help prove a suspect’s innocence.

At the international level, forensic data can also be used to link a series of transnational crimes, and fingerprints can be quickly checked if a suspect is crossing a border. This data can also be used to help identify victims of major disasters.

Facial recognition is a rapidly evolving biometric science which opens up many new opportunities for identifying individuals and solving crimes.

INTERPOL, maintain criminal databases of fingerprints, DNA profiles and facial images, provided by their member countries. This allows police across the world to make connections between criminals and crime scenes. They also train frontline officers to assess, preserve and share evidence in line with best practices.

 

Forensics also extends to false accounting. As in charging for services, then not providing them. Or, paying out enhanced pensions or Golden Handshakes from the public purse, to keep officers involved in cover ups quiet, as hush money. Very much along the lines of Donald Trump, in paying hush-money to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. Paying hush money is not illegal, but if payments are improperly recorded as to the reasons for payment. That is false accounting.

 

Ms Daniels alleges that she had sex with Mr Trump in 2006 - something he denies - and that she was paid money to stay quiet about it in the lead-up to the 2016 election, which Mr Trump won.

The trial centres on a reimbursement Mr Trump made to his former personal lawyer and "fixer", Michael Cohen.

Cohen, 57, claimed on the witness stand that he paid Ms Daniels $130,000 (£104,000) in exchange for her silence about her alleged tryst with Mr Trump. He claimed that he did so at Mr Trump's direction and with his assurances that he would be repaid.

Hush-money payments are not illegal. But the Manhattan District Attorney's Office alleges that Mr Trump committed a crime by improperly recording the money with which he reimbursed Cohen as legal expenses. They further accuse him of falsifying the business records to conceal a second crime - a violation of state election law.

In total, the former president is accused of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

 

The situation is similar to that reported to Interpol on the 10th June 2024, concerning an allegedly corrupt council, in that monies paid to employees as bonuses and/or overtime, or enhanced pensions, or golden handshakes, in return for not blowing the whistle, constitutes falsification of business records. For which the taxpayer is being asked to pay more money. to cover up past crimes. In this case planning related (fraud) crime.

 

 

CRIMES OF INTEREST TO INTERPOL:

 

CORRUPTION
COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY AND DOCUMENTS
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN
CULTURAL HERITAGE CRIME
CYBERCRIME
DRUG TRAFFICKING
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
FINANCIAL CRIME
FIREARMS TRAFFICKING
HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND MIGRANT SMUGGLING
ILLICIT GOODS
MARITIME CRIME
ORGANIZED CRIME
TERRORISM
VEHICLE CRIME
WAR CRIMES - Ukraine, Yemen (Houthis), Israel (Gaza)

 


RED NOTICES

A Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action. A Red Notice is not an international arrest warrant.

The individuals are wanted by the requesting member country, or international tribunal. Member countries apply their own laws in deciding whether to arrest a person.

The majority of Red Notices are restricted to law enforcement use only.

Extracts of Red Notices are published at the request of the member country concerned and where the public’s help may be needed to locate an individual or if the individual may pose a threat to public safety.

 

 

BLUE SHIELD INTERNATIONAL

Interpol workswith Blue Shield International (formerly the International Committee of the Blue Shield, ICBS; in French Comitι International du Bouclier Bleu, CIBB) to track heritage items.

Its mission is to improve international cooperation in the field of cultural heritage protection and to support local and regional activities. The Second Protocol of 1999 explicitly mentions in Articles 11 and 27 the consultative role of the International Committee of the Blue Shield in the implementation of the Agreement. Since the International Committee was founded in 1996, national Blue Shield Committees have been established in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Curaηao, Denmark, France, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Madagascar, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Spain, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and the US, comparable to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

The Association of the National Committees of the Blue Shield (ANCBS) was established on September 28, 2006 as the umbrella organization for the national committees. ANCBS and ICBS merged in 2016, to become the Blue Shield. International activities are now represented by Blue Shield International, who also work to coordinate and support the work of the national committees. 

 

The Blue Shield’s work is founded on the belief that cultural heritage – tangible and intangible – is important. It is a vital expression of the culture that makes up unique communities and its loss during conflict and disaster can be catastrophic.

Cultural heritage is the heritage we have inherited: our legacy, our memories, physical places, objects and intangible beliefs and practices, and so much more. Intangible heritage can often be associated with particular tangible cultural heritage. For example, placing poppies on a war memorial is a practice commemorating an event, but it takes place at a physical location. In Australia, many aboriginal groups have detailed practices passed down for many generations which are integral components of places in the landscape. Our heritage – physical and non-physical – is an important part of who we are and what we identify with, as individuals and communities.

This cultural identity relies on the memory of communities and individuals: it is key to identity, well-being, decisions and actions. Although memories are not always positive, and can be contested, they are an integral part of individuals, communities and societies. Cultural property is a powerful tool in determining what is remembered – and what is forgotten or obscured. For example, after conflicts and disasters, buildings can provide visible symbols of who is given priority in rebuilding if the community is divided – or who is not given permission at all.

Blue Shield strives to prevent the loss of heritage to communities, recognising that it is a fundamental part of their wellbeing. There are several key reasons for this.


WHAT INTERPOL DOES

The General Secretariat provides a range of expertise and services to member countries. They manage 19 police databases with information on crimes and criminals (from names and fingerprints to stolen passports), accessible in real-time to countries.

 

Interpol offers investigative support such as forensics, analysis, and assistance in locating fugitives around the world. Training is an important part of what they do in many areas so that officials know how to work efficiently with their services.

This expertise supports national efforts in combating crimes across four global areas they consider the most pressing today: terrorism; cybercrime; organized crime; and financial crime and anti-corruption.

INTERPOL General Secretariat
200, quai Charles de Gaulle
69006 Lyon
France

INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation
18 Napier Road
258510 Singapore

 

 

"We have gold because we cannot trust governments," President Herbert Hoover famously said in 1933 in his statement to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Emergency Banking Act, forced all Americans to convert their gold coins, bullion, and certificates into U.S. dollars, to stop the outflow of gold reserves during the Great Depression. The writing was on the wall, but nobody could read it.

 

 

"We have gold because we cannot trust governments," President Herbert Hoover famously said in 1933 in his statement to Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Emergency Banking Act, forced all Americans to convert their gold coins, bullion, and certificates into U.S. dollars, to stop the outflow of gold reserves during the Great Depression. The writing was on the wall, but nobody could read it.


 

 

 

 

WORLD WAR THREE

 

In the event of an international nuclear holocaust, World War Three will wipe out the Interpol HQ in France, much of Paris and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

 

 

 

 

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  INTERPOL IS THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION - AIMING TO CURB MONEY LAUNDERING, DRUGS, HUMAN TRAFICKING, PORNOGRAPHY, POLITICAL CORRUPTION, CYBER ATTACKS, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT

 

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