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"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 United Nations in New York in 2004 and to the European Union 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,"
"Interpol The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO-INTERPOL; ), more commonly known as Interpol, is the international organization that facilitates international police cooperation. It was established as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) in 1923; it chose INTERPOL as its telegraphic address in 1946, and made it its common name in 1956. INTERPOL has an annual budget of around €113 million, most of which is provided through annual contributions by its membership of police forces in 181 countries (). In 2013, the INTERPOL General Secretariat employed a staff of 756, representing 100 member countries. Its current Secretary-General is Jürgen Stock, the"
"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. Secretaries-general since organization's inception in 1923: Presidents since organization's inception in 1923: Interpol The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO-INTERPOL; ), more commonly known as Interpol, is the international organization that facilitates international police cooperation. It was established as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) in 1923; it chose INTERPOL as its telegraphic address in 1946, and made it its common name in 1956. INTERPOL has an annual budget of around"
"today as Interpol was born at the first International Criminal Police Congress, held in Monaco in 1914. It was officially created in 1923 with the name, International Criminal Police Commission, and renamed in 1956 with the name, Interpol. Today, it is the largest international police organization in the world and is made up of 190 member nations. Each member nation staffs a national central bureau that communicates and cooperates with other member nations. Its mission is """"""Preventing and fighting crime through enhanced cooperation and innovation on police and security matters"""". Although the organization Interpol exists to coordinate intelligence efforts between"
"that functions as a network of criminal 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, assisted via the central headquarters in Lyon, France. Interpol's collaborative form of cooperation is useful when fighting international crime because language, cultural and bureaucratic differences can make it difficult for police officials from different nations to work together. For example, if FBI special agents track a terrorist to Italy, they may not know whom to contact in the Polizia di Stato, if the Carabinieri have"
"addition to English. Ronald Noble Ronald Kenneth ""Ron"" Noble (born September 24, 1956) is an American law enforcement officer who served as the secretary-general of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) from 2000 to 2014. He became the organization's first American and youngest secretary-general at the time of his appointment. Prior to his time there, he worked as a public servant in various U.S. government agencies, including the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice and the Treasury. Noble was born in Fort Dix, a United States Army post south-east of Trenton, New Jersey, to"
"Ronald Noble Ronald Kenneth ""Ron"" Noble (born September 24, 1956) is an American law enforcement officer who served as the secretary-general of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) from 2000 to 2014. He became the organization's first American and youngest secretary-general at the time of his appointment. Prior to his time there, he worked as a public servant in various U.S. government agencies, including the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice and the Treasury. Noble was born in Fort Dix, a United States Army post south-east of Trenton, New Jersey, to an African-American father"
"Kim Jong Yang Kim Jong Yang (; born 30 October 1961) is a South Korean police officer who is the current President of Interpol. Prior to his Interpol career, Kim was Chief of Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, the law enforcement agency for South Korea's most populous province. As a police chief, Kim took part in efforts to spread South Korean policing strategies to other nations, including the Philippines, through financial assistance and training programs. In 2015 Kim was elected as Interpol's vice-president for Asia. Following the arrest and detainment of Interpol President Meng Hongwei in China, Kim took on the"
"murder where life is threatened or lost through the use of lethal weapons. Interpol National Central Bureau (Interpol NCB) The International Criminal Police Organisation (ICPO) popularly referred to as Interpol is an international police organisation that deals with transnational crime. The organisation has a membership of 191 countries and Zimbabwe is a member. Each member country has a National Central Bureau (NCB) which deals with transnational crimes. The other roles of NCB include: Exchange of information with other NCBs on criminal matters Extradition of fugitives Development of national criminal database Sharing information/intelligence on policing matters The NCB has the following"
"Interpol also received Meng's letter of resignation, with immediate effect, and said the organisation's acting senior vice president, Kim Jong Yang of South Korea, would be acting president until a permanent replacement was elected at a meeting in Dubai in November 2018. Interpol's press release did not mention whether Meng had resigned under duress. Grace Meng has threatened Interpol with legal action over its lack of investigation into the authenticity of the resignation. On 26 October, Meng was removed from the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body. Meng Hongwei Meng Hongwei (; born November 1953) is"
"former deputy head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office. He replaced Ronald Noble, a former United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, who stepped down in November 2014 after serving 14 years. Interpol's current President is Kim Jong Yang of South Korea, replacing Meng Hongwei, Deputy Minister of Public Security of China, who is alleged to have resigned via an undersigned postal letter in October 2018 after his detention and disappearance by Chinese authorities on corruption charges. To keep INTERPOL as politically neutral as possible, its charter forbids it from undertaking interventions or activities of a political, military,"
"To further cut costs, the series was produced back-to-back with ""Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)"". Department S is a division of Interpol headed by international bureaucrat Sir Curtis Seretse (Dennis Alaba Peters). Its headquarters is in Paris (Interpol's headquarters has been located in Lyon since 1989) and its members investigate international cases that other crime agencies cannot solve. The team itself is led by American and former FBI agent Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani), who takes direction from Seretse. Outside of his FBI experience, little is known about Sullivan except that he is pragmatic and hands-on, and does much of the leg-work,"
"role of Acting President. Although Interpol Vice-President and Russian interior ministry official Alexander Prokopchuk had been widely tipped to be Meng's successor, at a meeting in Dubai on 18–21 November 2018 Kim was elected to serve the remaining two years of Meng's term. Prokopchuk's candidacy had been opposed by Western nations, which had objected to the Russian government's abuses of Interpol red notices to target dissidents and political opponents. Kim Jong Yang Kim Jong Yang (; born 30 October 1961) is a South Korean police officer who is the current President of Interpol. Prior to his Interpol career, Kim was"
"South Korea. On 21 November 2018, INTERPOL's General Assembly elected Kim to fill the remainder of Meng's term, in a controversial election which saw accusations that the other candidate, Vice President Alexander Prokopchuk of Russia, had used INTERPOL notices to target critics of the Russian government. The role of INTERPOL is defined by the general provisions of its constitution. Article 2 states that its role is: Article 3 states: Contrary to frequent portrayals in popular culture, Interpol is not a supranational law enforcement agency and has no agents who are allowed to make arrests. Instead, it is an international organization"
"Meng Hongwei Meng Hongwei (; born November 1953) is a Chinese politician who was the president of Interpol from 2016 to 2018. He also served as vice-minister of Public Security in China from 2004 to 2018. Meng purportedly resigned in absentia in October 2018 via Chinese officials after he was detained and accused of taking bribes by Chinese anti-corruption authorities. His arrest and detention and the apparent lack of due process raised questions about the Chinese government's law enforcement tactics. Meng was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, in 1953. He entered the workforce in 1972 and joined the Chinese Communist Party"
"for law and order, traffic control, and crime prevention. In 1988, a fingerprint bureau was established in Thimphu, for which a female second lieutenant received specialized training. Bhutan became a member of Interpol on 19 September 2005; since then, Interpol has maintained a National Central Bureau at RBP headquarters in Thimphu. The RBP is headed by a chief of police who is under the control of the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs. He is assisted by a deputy chief of police. The headquarters of the RBP is located in the capital city of Thimphu and is divided into three"
"General of Interpol. Born October 1933 at Canterbury Kent United Kingdom Educated at grammar school and Exeter College, Oxford 1953 to 1956 Master of Arts Degree in modern languages Military service in Royal Air Force 1951 to 1953 principally during emergency in Malaya Colonial police in Uganda East Africa from 1956 to 1962 Metropolitan Police New Scotland Yard 1962 to 1986 essentially in Special Branch terminating with rank of Deputy Assistant Commissioner Secretary General of Interpol 1985 to 2000 when retired. President of European Union Anti Fraud Office beginning 2000 Holder of Queens Police Medal and Chevallier of Legion of"
"20, 2005, during Interpol's 74th General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, he was unanimously re-elected for a second five-year term, after having been unanimously nominated for the post by the organization's Executive Committee the previous year. On November 9, 2010, Noble was re-elected again for a third term as secretary-general during the organization's 79th General Assembly in Doha, Qatar. On November 7, 2014, he stepped down from the role and was succeeded by Jürgen Stock, who was unanimously elected during Interpol's 83rd General Assembly in Monaco. After his time with Interpol, Noble founded a multinational security consultancy firm, RKN Global DWC"
"in Washington, D.C. and 76 Legal Attaché offices in U.S. Embassies and Consulates worldwide. He was responsible for FBI Special Agents and Analysts assigned to the Interpol Washington, D.C. National Central Bureau office, United Nations, and General Secretariat office in Lyon, France as well as Europol Headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. Fuentes was also an Assistant Director of the FBI from 2004 until his retirement in November 2008. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee of Interpol from 2006 through 2009. Earlier in his career, Fuentes served as Special Agent in Charge of the Indianapolis Division of"
"projects, private foundations and commercial enterprises. Financial income and reimbursements made up the other six percent of the total. 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. From 2004 to 2010, Interpol's external auditors was the French Court of Audit. In November 2010, the Court of"
"personnel. Like most international CTOC organizations, Interpol suffers from continuously high levels of underfunding. In 2010, it operated on roughly $75 million budget. Since it holds no authority to conduct independent investigations or to arrest suspects, it is only as strong as the host country's police force. With a membership of 188 nations, the World Bank is nearly the same size as Interpol (190) and although CTOC is not its primary mission, the World Bank does attempt to combat TOC by conducting assessments of anti-money laundering provisions and carrying out anti-corruption efforts. Its efforts are hindered, however, by the lack"
"field agencies, and the headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Service's offices are located in cities throughout the United States and the world. The offices in Lyon and The Hague are respectively responsible for liaison with the headquarters of Interpol and Europol, located in those cities. In April 2012, an incident involving the president's security detail received international press attention. The incident involved 11 agents and personnel from four branches of the U.S. military; they allegedly engaged prostitutes while assigned to protect the U.S. President at the 6th Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia. As of April 24, 2012, nine"
"Martin Renkiewicz Martin Renkiewicz, a career federal Special Agent, was the first Department of Homeland Security (DHS) law enforcement officer to serve as Director of the United States National Central Bureau (USNCB) INTERPOL Washington. He was appointed on July 1, 2006 by President George W. Bush and served until October 1, 2009. INTERPOL Washington is a component of the Department of Justice (DOJ) co-managed by DOJ and DHS. The Director of the USNCB serves as the Attorney General’s representative and the U.S. law enforcement representative before the over 190 INTERPOL member countries and INTERPOL Headquarters in Lyon, France. Prior to"
"jurisdiction over some aspect of the case, or who in the Italian government must be notified of the FBI's involvement. The FBI can contact the Interpol National Central Bureau in Italy, which would act as a liaison between the United States and Italian law enforcement agencies. 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"
"being charged in January 2008, Selebi resigned as president of INTERPOL and was put on extended leave as National Police Commissioner of South Africa. He was temporarily replaced by Arturo Herrera Verdugo, the National Commissioner of Investigations Police of Chile and former vice president for the American Zone, who remained acting president until October 2008 and the appointment of Khoo Boon Hui. On 8 November 2012, the 81st General Assembly closed with the election of Deputy Central Director of the French Judicial Police Mireille Ballestrazzi as the first female president of the organization. In November 2016, Meng Hongwei, a politician"
"its police structure: the forerunner of the National Central Bureau (NCB). In 1938, the Nazis assumed control of the ICPC and most countries stop participating, effectively causing the ICPC to cease to exist as an international organization. After World War II, Belgium led the rebuilding of the organization, with a new headquarters in Paris and a new name - Interpol. The United Nations did not recognize Interpol as an intergovernmental organization until 1971. On June 17, 1971, President Nixon declared """"America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy,"
"Interpol notice An Interpol notice is an international alert circulated by Interpol to communicate information about crimes, criminals, and threats by police in a member state (or an authorised international entity) to their counterparts around the world. The information disseminated via notices concerns individuals wanted for serious crimes, missing persons, unidentified bodies, possible threats, prison escapes, and criminals' ""modus operandi"". There are eight types of notices, seven of which are colour-coded by their function: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Black, Orange, and Purple. The most well-known notice is the Red Notice which is the ""closest instrument to an international arrest warrant"
"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 these 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"
"Interpol Terrorism Watch List Interpol launched the Interpol Terrorism Watch List on 11 April 2002 for access by Interpol offices and authorized police agencies in its 184 member countries, during the 17th Interpol Regional Conference for the Americas in Mexico City. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373, Interpol took a number of steps, including the establishment of a 24-hour, 7 days a week command center and a linkage system to identify terrorist financing lists, to support its member countries' police forces. The Interpol Terrorism Watch List permits access by authorized police agencies to"
"William Higgitt William Leonard ""Len"" Higgitt (10 November 1917 – 2 April 1989) was the 15th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) from 1969 to 1973 and President of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) from 1972 to 1976. Leonard was born in Anerley, Saskatchewan on November 10, 1917. His father Percy Higgitt gave up his nearby homestead when Leonard was four to be an Imperial Oil agent and grain buyer for the Canadian Consolidated Grain Company; later taking over the local store and post office which he operated for over forty years, and ultimately spending many hours"
"from the People's Republic of China, was elected president during the 85th Interpol General Assembly, and was to serve in this capacity until 2020. At the end of September 2018, Meng was reported missing during a trip to China, after being ""taken away"" for questioning by ""discipline authorities"". Chinese police later confirmed that Meng had been arrested on charges of bribery as part of a national anti-corruption campaign. on 7 October 2018, INTERPOL announced that Meng had resigned his post with immediate effect and that the Presidency would be temporarily occupied by INTERPOL Senior Vice-President (Asia) Kim Jong Yang of"
"of 24 August 1940, Reinhard Heydrich declared that he had been informed that his candidacy as ICPC President had ""passed unanimously."" Heydrich continued that he would ""lead the Commission into a new and successful future"" and that the ICPC headquarters would “from now on be located in Berlin”. Otto Steinhäusl Otto Steinhäusl (10 March 1879 – 20 June 1940) was an Austrian-born SS-""Oberführer"", Polizeipräsident (Police President) of Vienna, and President of Interpol (1938–1940). Steinhäusl served as Vienna's head of police and Polizeipräsident starting in the early 1930s. It is also believed to be the time which he joined the underground"
"to a European city close to an international airport, such as Heathrow and Frankfurt Airport. After a meeting with international police officials at their headquarters in Lyon, France, Interpol launched Operation Show Me How (named after books which some heroin had been found in). The investigation uncovered Nigerian criminal gangs running heroin from Bangkok and Pakistan and opium and cocaine from Bogotá, Colombia. The operation also contributed to undermining the activity of these gangs in the Czech Republic. In 1999, Interpol suggested that all its member countries should monitor the type of postal system drug smuggling investigated by Operation Show"