“Shawn Bray, Director, INTERPOL Washington, United States National Central Bureau

In a small town in central Missouri, newly married and recently graduated from Truman State University, I began my career in law enforcement as a police officer. There, I gained a deep appreciation for my state and local counterparts and the vital work they do—the hardships they endure and the sacrifices they make to keep us and our communities safe. This appreciation has stayed with me throughout my experience working as a special agent for the U.S. Customs Service along the Arizona-Mexico border; as Unit Chief of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Cyber Crimes Center; and, today, nearly 25 years later, as Director of INTERPOL Washington, the United States National Central Bureau (USNCB) of the International Criminal Police Organization.

As Director, I am privileged to serve as the designated U.S. representative to INTERPOL on behalf of the Attorney General. I am also privileged in this role to oversee the activities of the USNCB, the official point of contact for all INTERPOL matters in the United States. Based in Lyon, France, INTERPOL’s vast communications and criminal intelligence network extends far beyond national borders and political alliances. In fact, INTERPOL facilitates police cooperation throughout 190 member countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, even in situations where diplomatic relations may not exist between particular countries.

A number of recent studies and assessments point to the globalization of crime as a growing threat to our local communities, our economic well-being, and—because of increasing evidence of ties to terrorist organizations—our national security. INTERPOL Washington offers U.S. law enforcement agencies a unique set of resources to aid in defending against these threats by providing around-the-clock access to vital international investigative resources that include I-24/7, INTERPOL’s secure, global police-to-police communication network; its broad array of investigative databases; and the INTERPOL Notice system.

INTERPOL Washington operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. A state-of-the-art command center in Washington, D.C., enables us to respond immediately to requests for law enforcement and humanitarian assistance Operational divisions provide investigative support in criminal activities with an international nexus that includes fugitives, human trafficking and smuggling, child exploitation, drugs, economic crimes, stolen works of art and cultural property, violent crimes, transnational gangs, and terrorism. Our services directly benefit more than 18,000 domestic law enforcement agencies and their counterparts in 189 other INTERPOL member countries engaged in the fight against transnational crime and terrorism.

As the U.S. National Central Bureau, INTERPOL Washington is exclusively authorized to seek the publication of INTERPOL Notices on behalf of U.S. law enforcement agencies. Color-coded according to their purposes, INTERPOL Notices serve as requests for international law enforcement assistance in such matters as locating and apprehending fugitives (red); obtaining information on the location, identity, or illegal activities of a person of interest in a criminal investigation (blue), or locating missing persons, including missing children and parental abductions (yellow). Last year alone, INTERPOL Washington initiated over 42,500 new cases and secured the publication of more than 1,800 INTERPOL Notices to National Central Bureaus world-wide and to our state and local partners here in the United States.

One of our recent high-profile cases exemplifies the importance of international police cooperation, and the value of INTERPOL’s investigative resources. The case involved the apprehension of Ulrich Engler, a fugitive wanted by German authorities for defrauding more than 1,000 investors from multiple European countries. These investors gave more than $100 million (USD) in capital to a shell company owned by the subject. In turn, Engler promised the investors that the company would return upwards of 70 percent of their initial investment annually. Instead, Engler used the investment capital to fund personal luxuries including expensive automobiles, properties, artwork, and jewelry. On March 22, 2010, Germany obtained the publication of an INTERPOL Red Notice on Engler, who for years was able to evade capture by using a myriad of aliases and physically altering his appearance. The subject was eventually arrested under an alias by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, leading investigators to discover his true identity along with the INTERPOL Red Notice and warrants for arrest. Engler was subsequently extradited to Germany to face trial. In all, over $50 million in assets were recovered.

Great case successes such as this one do not happen in isolation. Instead, they result from the cooperation of our domestic and international law enforcement partners. To that end, INTERPOL Washington is staffed by a large complement of special agents, officers, and analysts detailed from 27 partner agencies. Without the successful integration of these agencies under one roof and the ability to coordinate effectively with their international counterparts through INTERPOL channels, the identification and arrest of fugitives like Ulrich Engler would be severely hampered.

Under its Law Enforcement Information Sharing Strategy, INTERPOL Washington is continuing its efforts to share access to and boost capacity among our federal, state, local, and tribal partners. To date, we have delivered INTERPOL resources and established IT systems to support direct access to INTERPOL databases in more than 33 states free of charge. As a result, these agencies collectively run over 140,000 checks a day on INTERPOL systems. In another step forward, eight states have now federated the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) wanted query with the INTERPOL person query when they perform roadside checks on a subject. Last year, our domestic law enforcement partners conducted more than 222 million passport checks, 41 million name checks, and 2.6 million stolen motor vehicle checks across the United States. Access to INTERPOL resources continues to grow and to demonstrate its value in deterring international crimes and criminals.

In the future, we look to continue this critical mission by releasing e-learning modules on INTERPOL resources. This training will include an overview video of INTERPOL Washington and web-based training on INTERPOL, INTERPOL Washington, INTERPOL Notices, the Stolen and Lost Travel Documents program, and the International Fugitives program. These resources will equip law enforcement officers across the country with the knowledge and tools necessary to apply for and obtain INTERPOL Notices or to check INTERPOL databases. Access to INTERPOL resources and training are provided free of charge to U.S. law enforcement. We look forward to working with you to keep our communities safe.”

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by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies

“The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is seeking a full membership with the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO), internationally known as Interpol, and will be submitting an official application to the organization this coming August.

Brigadier Yousef ‘Ezraeel, head of the National Anti-Drug and Crime Force in Palestine, told the Maan News Agency that the Palestinian application will be submitted in August so that a vote on the application can be held during the Interpol annual meeting this November.

He stated that the Interpol is one of the international organizations that the P.A plans to join, and added that the application must be submitted three months prior to the annual Interpol meeting.

He further stated that the Executive Committee of the Interpol must first adopt the application before it is submitted for a vote, adding that the Palestinian leadership and the Ministry of Interior are holding talks with different countries in this regard, especially with Qatar and Algeria, as the two Arab countries are members of the Interpol’s Executive Committee.

Brigadier ‘Ezraeel said that a successful vote requires two thirds plus one, and added that Palestine contacted different member countries and managed to garner the needed support for the vote.

He stated that Palestine wants to join the Interpol in order to fight crime, punish criminals and fight corruption in Palestine, and different parts of the world as well.

On March 26, Palestinian head of the anti-corruption committee, Rafiq Al-Natsha, stated that the Palestinian Authority has a limited Interpol membership, an issue that does not allow the P.A. To issue international arrest warrants against Palestinian officials convicted of corruption and living abroad.

In November of 2012, the Palestinian Authority managed to obtain a non-member observer state status at the United Nations General Assembly. The vote granted the P.A. The ability to file for membership in different international organizations.

The Interpol was established in 1923 and was knows as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC), and adopted the name (Interpol) in 1956.

There are 190 countries that are members of the Interpol, and its headquarters are located in Lyon in France. The Interpol is considered the second largest international organization after the United Nations.”

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By AFP

“JOHANNESBURG, May 10 – Interpol has cancelled a demand for the arrest of the son of former Zambian president Rupiah Banda, his lawyer said on Friday.

The international policing body could not find enough evidence against Henry Banda to justify a red notice, which requests an arrest be made, according to his lawyer Nicqui Galaktiou.

“Interpol on April 16 cancelled the red notice and all information relating to Mr Banda was deleted from Interpol’s databases,” Galaktiou told AFP.

Banda’s lawyers learned early last year that Zambian President Michael Sata’s government had reported their client to Interpol amid corruption allegations.

He has been out of the country since his father lost power to populist Sata in a presidential election in 2011 and currently lives in South Africa.

Sata has since hauled many members of the former government to courts in what critics have described as the persecution of political opponents.

But there was not sufficient evidence to implicate Henry Banda, said Galaktiou.

She accused Sata’s administration of pursuing a vendetta against the former president’s son.

“There’ve been numerous attempts by the Zambian government to harass Mr Banda.”

“Recent events in Zambia, where Mr Rupiah Banda’s (presidential) immunity has been lifted, demonstrate to us that there has been a political motive against Henry all this time.”

Henry Banda is wanted over allegations of corruption in the sale of Zambian state-run telecommunications company Zamtel to LAP Green of Libya. Sata’s government later reversed the $257-million deal.”

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“NASSAU, Bahamas – The latest session in a three-year programme coordinated by INTERPOL to boost national law enforcement’s ability to fight drugs trafficking and organized crime across the Americas has opened in Nassau, Bahamas.

Some 21 law enforcement officials involved in investigations into illicit drugs and transnational organized crime from across Central America and the Caribbean (Anguilla, The Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Jamaica, Montserrat and Nicaragua) are taking part in the two-week (6 – 17 May) programme, organized by INTERPOL’s Capacity Building and Training Directorate.

“The launch of this training initiative here in the Bahamas, is another clear indication of INTERPOL’s commitment to capacity building in police forces worldwide,” said Commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Mr Ellison Greenslade.

“It fulfills an urgent need to further sensitize and train police officers and law enforcement partners to effectively deal with emerging global threats such as trafficking in persons, human smuggling, trafficking in illicit goods, weapons and drug trafficking, counterfeiting, money laundering, and a long list of other crimes,” added the Commissioner.

Welcoming the participants, Minster of National Security Dr Bernard J. Nottage said, “You have come here to receive hands on training in practical ways to harness and develop your skills for taking action against the insidious threat to our way of life from drugs and organized crime and from the evils they bring in their wake: violence, crime, corruption, the breakdown of family life and the destruction of young people.”

INTERPOL’ s Director of Training and Capacity Building, Dale Sheehan highlighted that the over-reaching goal of the three-year programme, launched in 2011, was sustainability and that successes had already been achieved.

“Through strong training and capacity building standards developed by our programmes, we have already seen an impact on the ground, with those who have benefitted having already gone out and trained some 1,600 other law enforcement officers in the past year alone. This is sustainability,” said Mr Sheehan.

Agencies taking part in this training include the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Regional School for Anti-drug Intelligence of the American Community, in addition to specialists from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the National Police of Colombia.

As part of a combined approach the programme is running bilingually in Spanish and English, with all participants contributing their professional knowledge in core subjects. Participants include drugs and organized crime investigators from specialized law enforcement agencies, customs officials, prosecutors and INTERPOL National Central Bureau officials involved in police communications.”

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“LYON, France – The use of video surveillance by both law enforcement and the private sector was the focus of a Group of Experts Meeting on video surveillance organised and hosted by INTERPOL within the framework of the EU-supported Rules, Expectations & Security through Privacy-Enhanced Convenient Technologies (RESPECT) project.

Some 35 experts from 24 countries gathered for the two-day (24 and 25 April) meeting at the world police body’s General Secretariat headquarters to discuss a range of issues relating to CCTV, including interoperability between law enforcement, public and private sector systems, effectiveness, prospective developments and the balance between security needs and individuals’ rights.

With investigations into the Boston Marathon bombing again highlighting the importance of video surveillance from an operational perspective, particularly in relation to suspect identification, existing practices and common challenges were also key items on the agenda.

Organized by INTERPOL’s Office of Legal Affairs, the meeting served as the foundation for the projects’ research on video surveillance in order to identify operational needs and develop recommendations to strengthen security whilst respecting citizens’ fundamental rights.

Joël Sollier, INTERPOL’s General Counsel, said the results of the discussions would not only benefit the RESPECT project but indeed the global law enforcement community which, through INTERPOL, would continue to provide input to policy-making at a crucial stage before new European laws on the subject were finally agreed.

The meeting, chaired by RESPECT and SMART projects co-ordinator Professor Joe Cannataci, Chair in European Information Policy & Technology Law at the University of Groningen and Head of the Department of Information Policy & Governance at the University of Malta, also addressed the issue of CCTV integration into smart surveillance, the main focus of RESPECT’s ‘sister project’,  Scalable Measures for Automated Recognition Technologies (SMART).

The three-year RESPECT project, like the SMART project, is funded under the Security Work Programme within the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). INTERPOL is a full partner in both projects which are each being carried out by over 50 researchers organized within 20 teams from partners within 16 European Union states and Australia.

One of the goals of the RESPECT and SMART projects is to draft a model law which can be deployed across Europe and beyond. Feedback from INTERPOL following this expert meeting will help establish guidelines and standards which reflect the law enforcement community’s needs, as well as identifying appropriate safeguards.

The overall objective of the project is to modernize and improve the quality and efficiency of surveillance stakeholders’ working methods, including those of law enforcement agencies while providing the right balance with and improving respect for privacy and other rights of the citizens subjected to surveillance.”

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INTERPOL on April 15, 2013 released the following:

“World police body supporting international manhunt for convicted robber who blasted his way out of prison

LYON, France – An INTERPOL Red Notice or international wanted persons alert has been issued for one of France’s most notorious criminals, Redoine Faid, who escaped from a detention centre near Lille after setting off a series of explosions and taking four guards hostage.

The global alert was sent to all 190 member countries just hours after the breakout on Saturday and included identifying information such as the photograph and fingerprints of the convicted armed robber in order to assist national law enforcement to identify him.

In addition to his convictions for a series of armed robberies, 40-year-old Faid is suspected of involvement in a robbery in 2010 in which a policewoman was killed during a shootout and is also wanted in connection with the attempted murder of an officer of the Gendarmerie Nationale.

INTERPOL’s Fugitive Investigative Support (FIS) unit at its General Secretariat headquarters is now liaising closely with French authorities in order to ensure that any information on Faid’s whereabouts is shared as a high priority.

INTERPOL’s Executive Director of Police Services, Jean-Michel Louboutin said the decision by its National Central Bureau in Paris to make the Red Notice publicly available would significantly assist law enforcement in locating the escaped prisoner.

“Redoine Faid is clearly a dangerous individual and INTERPOL is providing all necessary support to ensure that he is back behind bars as quickly as possible,” said Mr Louboutin.

“INTERPOL’s Red Notice is a powerful law enforcement tool that can assist police in locating and apprehending individuals who pose a threat to public safety and security, which is clearly the case here. France’s request for INTERPOL to issue a Red Notice dramatically increases the likelihood of Faid’s arrest, no matter where he attempts to evade justice,” added Mr Louboutin.

Faid should be considered armed and dangerous and members of the public are advised not to approach him, and to pass any information to their local or national police.

A Red Notice can be requested by any INTERPOL member country and is issued by INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters. It is placed in INTERPOL’s central database which can be queried by any member country, and can also be added to foreign law enforcement databases and border lookout systems.

Many INTERPOL member countries view a Red Notice as the basis for the provisional arrest of a wanted person with a view to their extradition. Issued in all four of INTERPOL’s official languages ‒ Arabic, English, French and Spanish ‒ a Red Notice remains in effect until the wanted fugitive is extradited.”

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“Russian law enforcers will press for criminal prosecution of the US adoptive parents who face charges after the deaths of their adopted Russian children, the head of the agency has promised.

Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Aleksandr Bastrykin told reporters on Wednesday that his agency would use the international agency Interpol in order to bring criminal responsibility upon US citizens whose adopted Russian children die in suspicious circumstances.

“In cases when the US authorities fail to duly react to the deaths of children who are Russian citizens we will prosecute these persons harshly and directly,” Bastrykin said. The official noted that he also spoke of the people who were “released by the American justice system” and that the suspects would be prosecuted under Russian laws.

The top investigator reminded the reporters that recently Russian law enforcers have instigated 22 criminal cases against adoptive US parents.

The statement came after Texan officials issued a report saying that they did not plan to press charges against Alan and Laura Shatto, the adoptive parents of Russian three-year-old boy Maksim Kuzmin, who died in hospital on January 21.

Maksim’s death occurred soon after Russia introduced the controversial Dima Yakovlev Law banning all US adoptions. It was named after a Russian boy who died after his adoptive American father left him locked in a car in hot weather.

When Russian Ombudsman for Children’s Rights Pavel Astakhov learned about the new case he announced that Maksim Kuzmin had been murdered by his adoptive parents, alleging they had also given psychotropic drugs to the child. US specialists confirmed neither of this charges, saying that the boy’s traumas were self-inflicted and that no drugs were discovered in his body.

Russian authorities demanded that the US side present all documents concerning the case, including the autopsy report and other forensic papers, as even after the adoption the boy remained a Russian citizen.

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the Texan authorities’ decision raised serious questions and Russia’s top Human Rights official, Konsantin Dolgov, said that the ruling was extremely strange, as it presented the situation in a way in which a small child died a violent death and still his adoptive parents bore no responsibility.

Dolgov added that this case matches the general pattern of leniency demonstrated by the US law enforcers and courts towards the adoptive parents of Russian orphans.

However, the US Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul has said that the US side had provided Russian diplomats with exhaustive information on Maksim Kuzmin’s death. The ambassador noted that he was ready to meet with Russian MPs and with Astakhov to discuss the issue of international adoption.

“Violence against children is horrible. We have common enemies in this sphere. It is necessary to fight against these common enemies,” McFaul told reporters.

The Russian lower house has already invited McFaul for a discussion on the adoptions issue, but the ambassador turned down this request, quoting the generally-accepted rules for US diplomats.

Russian legislators replied by expressing surprise, saying that these same rules had not prevented McFaul from speaking before the Russian upper house when his country was canceling the Jackson-Vanik amendment.”

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“Assistance in locating and extraditing wanted Libyan fugitives also high on agenda

TRIPOLI, Libya – Identifying how INTERPOL can provide additional assistance in the recovery of assets stolen during the Gaddafi regime and help enhance national and regional security were key issues during a meeting between INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble and Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.

With Secretary General Noble also meeting Interior Minister Ashour Shuwail and Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz, high on the agenda of Mr Noble’s two-day mission (16 and 17 March) was INTERPOL’s active role in helping Libya identify, locate and extradite fugitives through the publication of Red Notices, or international wanted persons alerts.

“As Libya continues to rebuild its infrastructure following the 2011 overthrowing of Gaddafi, INTERPOL member countries can help Libya track down not only fugitives, but the millions if not billions in assets stolen by Colonel Gaddafi, his family and associates,” stated Secretary General Noble.

Libya’s Prime Minister Zeidan, Foreign Minister Abdelaziz, and Interior Minister Shuwail were united in their support of INTERPOL’s providing technical assistance and creating a joint public private task force that would collaborate with Libya to help track down and repatriate the assets looted from the country during the Gaddafi regime.

“These stolen assets need to be recovered so that ‘they can be made available to and for the benefit of the people of Libya’ as required by several UN Security Council resolutions. If INTERPOL is successful, then it will help Libya in its efforts to build a peaceful, secure, independent and free Libya,” concluded Mr Noble.

With security the highest priority in the country, the INTERPOL Chief’s visit comes just days after the inauguration of INTERPOL’s real-time passport screening system at Tripoli International Airport as part of international efforts to improve Libyan border security.

Under INTERPOL’s EUR 2.2 million Project RELINC (Rebuilding Libya’s Investigative Capability) funded by the EU, Libyan border control authorities can now directly access INTERPOL’s global database to detect stolen and lost passports, enabling the instant identification of persons seeking to conceal their true identity, including internationally wanted persons, suspected terrorists and transnational criminals.

The INTERPOL Chief’s visit also allowed him to emphasize INTERPOL’s ongoing efforts to help bring about the arrest of a number of fugitives subject to Red Notices issued at Libya’s request, including Colonel Gaddafi’s former director of military intelligence, Abdullah Al-Senussi, who was extradited to Tripoli from Mauritania in September last year as the most recent example of their success.

“INTERPOL’s Red Notices are proven effective tools in assisting member countries locate fugitives, no matter where they attempt to hide, and no matter how long ago the offence was committed,” said Secretary General Noble, pointing to the Red Notice issued for Faraj Al-Chalabi at Libya’s request in connection with the murder of two German nationals in 1994. One of Al-Chalabi’s co-accused was Osama bin Laden, who was also the subject of a Red Notice issued at Libya’s request.”

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“VATICAN CITY – The Vatican City State has welcomed police officials from across the world with Pope Benedict XVI receiving delegates and INTERPOL officials who attended the Organization’s 81st General Assembly in Rome.

Pope Benedict received the visitors at a special audience in his capacity as the head of state of one the world’s smallest independent nations.

The secular visit also included interior and justice ministers from some of INTERPOL’s 190 member countries who had earlier in the week approved a joint declaration recognizing the need to identify viable strategies to effectively address the changing modes of contemporary criminal violence through greater shared intelligence and increased use of international police tools and services.

Addressing the delegates, Pope Benedict said violence of any kind was unacceptable and commended the work of law enforcement officers around the world.

“In this regard, the function of INTERPOL, which we may define as a bastion of international security, enjoys an important place in the realization of the common good, because a just society needs order and a respect for the rule of law to achieve a peaceful and tranquil coexistence in society.”

The Pope said that ‘the Holy See encourages all those working to combat this scourge of violence and crime at a time when our world is increasingly becoming a global village.’

“Thus it is necessary to safeguard individuals and communities by a constant renewed determination and by adequate means,” added Pope Benedict.

Speaking on behalf of the world police body’s 190 member countries, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said: “Members of the INTERPOL family may speak different languages, wear different uniforms and be of different faiths or colours but we remain firmly bound together by our shared commitment to respect and protect the dignity of persons, their fundamental rights, and the rule of law.

“Police take great pride in their work because they know they are making a difference: the difference between security and danger, between order and chaos, between hope and despair, between health and happiness and pain and suffering,” concluded the INTERPOL Chief.

INTERPOL’s 81st General Assembly (5 – 8 November), which was launched with a Ministerial meeting, was attended by more than 1,000 delegates from 171 member countries and addressed the challenges faced by the police in tackling contemporary criminal violence.

The Vatican City State became INTERPOL’s 187th member country in October 2008 at the 77th General Assembly in St Petersburg, Russia.”

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“New members appointed to Executive Committee as landmark General Assembly shapes global response to contemporary violence

ROME, Italy – INTERPOL’s 81st General Assembly has closed with delegates electing as the new President of INTERPOL Mireille Ballestrazzi, Deputy Central Director of the French Judicial Police.

Mrs Ballestrazzi said she felt a great sense of pride and joy to have been elected as the President of INTERPOL and looked forward to serving all of INTERPOL’s 190 member countries in ‘an unfailing spirit to promote mutual assistance and solidarity’.

“I am wholly committed to the fundamental role INTERPOL must play in global police cooperation. By establishing the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation and leading other recent initiatives, INTERPOL has placed itself at the forefront of innovation which I will continue to fully support. There is no doubt that this direction will open up drastically new perspectives for INTERPOL and its member countries worldwide as we face together the challenges of today and tomorrow.”

The President of the Organization heads its Executive Committee and is elected by the General Assembly for a period of four years.

INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble welcomed President Ballestrazzi’s appointment as another example of INTERPOL’s evolution, reflecting the active role of both men and women in the international law enforcement community.

“As the world’s largest police organization, it is essential that INTERPOL’s leadership offers the best policing and expertise to its 190 member countries in order to meet their needs,” said Mr Noble.

“Mireille Ballestrazzi’s appointment as President of INTERPOL comes at a time when countries are adapting to the realities of the changing nature of transnational organized crime in the 21st century.

“She brings invaluable experience in cross-border police collaboration to her role, as well as proven leadership abilities, and I look forward to working closely with her to ensure that INTERPOL continues to provide innovative responses to meet the needs of our member countries, ” added the INTERPOL Chief.

Paying a warm tribute to outgoing President Khoo Boon Hui of Singapore, Mr Noble said Mr Khoo would be remembered as ‘a champion and driving force of international law enforcement cooperation’.

Also elected to the Executive Committee were Alan Bersin, Assistant Secretary of International Affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Vice President for the Americas), Nobuyuki Kawai, Director of the Organized Crime Department of the National Police Academy of Japan (Vice President for Asia), Algeria’s Abdelkader Kara Bouhadba, Commissaire Divisionnaire de Police, Directeur de la Police Judiciaire (Delegate for Africa), Bob Paulson, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Delegate for the Americas), Jong Yang Kim of the Korean National Police Agency and Head of INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau in Seoul (Delegate for Asia), Brigadier General Saoud Abdallah Al-Mahmoud, Director of the International Cooperation Department of Qatar’s Ministry of Interior (Delegate for Asia), and Filippo Dispenza, Brigadier General of the Italian National Police (Delegate for Europe).

The four-day conference (5 – 8 November) in Rome was launched with a Ministerial meeting attended by close to 100 global leaders who endorsed a joint declaration recognizing the need to identify viable strategies to effectively address the changing modes of contemporary criminal violence.

During the conference, more than 1,000 delegates from some 170 countries endorsed a series of resolutions to build a modern framework for collective action, including on maritime piracy, illicit trafficking in cultural property, the INTERPOL Programme to Combat Trafficking in Illicit Goods launched earlier this year, the INTERPOL Travel Document and cybercrime.

A groundbreaking initiative by INTERPOL to support the safety and security of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and other major sporting events over the next 10 years was also launched following an agreement with the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee worth USD 10 million.

With Cartagena, Colombia, hosting INTERPOL’s next General Assembly in 2013, conference delegates closed the event by selecting Monaco as the venue for INTERPOL’s 83rd General Assembly in 2014, which will mark the 100th anniversary of the first International Criminal Police Congress.”

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