INTERPOL

Introduction

 INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police

organization, with 187 member countries.
 It facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports
and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose
mission is to prevent or combat crime.
 The General Secretariat is located in Lyon, France.
 INTERPOL operates seven regional offices -in Argentina,
Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, El Salvador, Kenya, Thailand
and Zimbabwe -and a representative office at the United
Nations in New York.
 Each member country maintains a National Central Bureau
(NCB) staffed by highly trained law enforcement officers.
 INTERPOL is the International Criminal Police
Organization. INTERPOL is a national network of police
agencies, founded in 1923. The idea behind INTERPOL
was first discussed during a 1914 international police
conference in Monaco. There were 24 countries present.
Today, there are 190 different nations linked together
through INTERPOL.
 The idea of INTERPOL was born in 1914 at the first
International Criminal Police Congress, held in Monaco.
Officially created in 1923 as the International Criminal
Police Commission, the Organization became known as
INTERPOL in 1956.
 Each of those 190 nations houses a National Central
Bureau, which serves as the nation's INTERPOL office and
 houses a police force. The bureaus are connected to one
another through technology and other forms of
communication, so that the police forces can work together.

INTERPOL: CORE FUNCTIONS

Secure global police communications services:
INTERPOL manages global police communications system
known asI-24/7 which enables police in all of its member
countries to request, submit and access vital police data instantly
in a secure environment.
Operational data services and databases for police:
INTERPOL manages a range of databases with information on
names and photographs of known criminals, wanted persons,
fingerprints ,DNA profiles, stolen or lost travel documents,
stolen motor vehicles, child sex abuse images and stolen works
of art.
INTERPOL also disseminates critical crime related data through
its system of international notices. There are seven kinds of
notices, of which the most well known is the Red Notice, an
international request for the provisional arrest of an individual.
Operational police support services:
INTERPOL has six priority crime areas corruption, drugs and
organized crime,financial and high tech crime, fugitives, public
safety and terrorism, and trafficking in human beings.
INTERPOL also operates a 24-hour Command and
Coordination Centre to assist any member country faced with a
crisis situation, coordinate the exchange of information and
assume a crisis-management role during serious incidents.
Police training and development.
INTERPOL provides focused police training initiatives for
national police forces, and also offers on-demand advice,
guidance and supporting building dedicated crime fighting
components.The aim is to enhance the capacity of member
countries to effectively combat serious transnational crime and
terrorism.
This includes sharing knowledge, skills and best practices in
policing and the establishment of global standards for
combating specific crimes.
Role and Governace of INERPOL
 INTERPOL’s Constitution prohibits ‘any intervention or
activities of a political, military, religious or racial
character.’ The intention is to assist international police co-
operation even where diplomatic relations do not exist
between particular countries. Action is taken within the
limits of existing laws in different countries and in the spirit
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
 It’s supreme governing body is the General Assembly,
which meets once a year to take all major decisions
affecting general policy and comprises delegates appointed
by oversees the execution of the decisions of the General
Assembly and the work of the Secretary General. It has 13
members, elected by the General Assembly, who represent
all regions of the world. The president, who chairs the
committee, serves a four-year term; three vice-presidents
and nine delegates serve for three years each.
 The secretary general, the organization’s chief executive
and senior full-time official, is responsible for overseeing
INTERPOL’s day-to-day work of international police co-
operation and for implementing the decisions of the
General Assembly and Executive Committee.
Interopl ; working
Crisis response:
 Incident response team in major crimes to help a member
country such as rioting
 Incident response team in major natural or manmade
disaster like bombings etc
Event security:
Major events support team sent to member country to provide
security like Olympics or world cup to help in security planning
and policing etc
Crime prevention:
Together, the INTERPOL bureaus use intelligence to investigate
incidents and apprehend suspects. INTERPOL forces work
together to find known criminals and bring them to justice.
 Drug trafficking, organized crime, financial and high-tech
crimes including counterfeiting and money laundering,
public safety and terrorism, human trafficking, corruption,
environmental crimes and crimes against humanity.
 In addition, INTERPOL’s Fugitive Investigation Service
keeps an eye out for suspects globally with its Red Notice
alerts that notify member states when one nation has issued
an arrest warrant for a suspect.
 Financial resources are provided by member countries as
per agreement

 INTERPOL also disseminates critical crime-related data

through a system of international notices. Based on the
requests from member countries, the INTERPOL General
Secretariat (IPSG) produces notices in all of the
 organisation'sfour official languages: Arabic, English,
French and Spanish.
INTERTPOL NOTICES:
The seven types of notices and their objectives are:
Red Notice
 To seek the arrest or provisional arrest of wanted persons,
with a view to extradition.
Yellow Notice
 To help locate missing persons, often minors, or to help
identify persons who are unable to identify themselves.
Blue Notice
 To collect additional information about a person's identity
or activities in relation to a crime.
Black Notice
 To seek information on unidentified bodies.
Green Notice
 To provide warnings and criminal intelligence about
persons who have committed criminal offences and are
likely to repeat these crimes in other countries.
Orange Notice
 To warn police, public entities and other international
organisations about potential threats from disguised
weapons,parcel bombs and other dangerous materials.
Purple Notice
To provide information on modioperandi, procedures, ojects,
devices or hiding places used by criminals
EUROPOL
Introduction
  Europol is the European Union law enforcement agency
that handles criminal intelligence.
 Its aim is to improve the effectiveness and co-operation
between the competent authorities of the Member States in
preventing and combating all forms of serious international
organisedcrime and terrorism.
 The first move towards informal cooperation was taken in
the 1970s, with the setting up of the Trevigroup by
European Communities’ interior and justice ministers.
 Trevi’sinitial concern was to address international
terrorism, but it soon extended its focus of attention to
cover other areas of cross-border crime within the
European Community.
 The establishment of Europol was agreed in the Treaty on
European Union of 7 February 1992. Based in The Hague,
Netherlands, Europol started limited operations on 3
January 1994 in the form of the Europol Drugs Unit (EDU)
fighting against drug-related crimes.
 The Europol Convention was ratified by all EU member
states and came into force on 1 October 1998. Following a
number of legal acts related to the Convention, Europol
commenced its full activities on 1 July 1999.
 On 1 January 2002, the mandate of Europol was extended
to deal with all serious forms of international crime as
listed in the annex to the Europol Convention.

Europol working:
 Europol headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands.
  Working closely with law enforcement agencies in the 28
EU Member States and in other non-EU partner states and
organisations
 more than 900 staff
 185 Europol Liaison Officers (ELOs)
 around 100 criminal analysts
 over 18 000 cross-border investigations each year
 Europol supports the law enforcement activities of
the member states mainly against:
FUNCTIONS
Europol supports the law enforcement activities of the member
states mainly against:
 Illicit drug trafficking;
 Illicit immigration networks;
 Terrorism;
 Forgery of money (counterfeiting of the euro) and other
means of payment;
 Trafficking in human beings (including child pornography);
 llicit vehicle trafficking;
 Money laundering.
FUNCTIONS
 To function as the principal EU support centrefor law
enforcement operations
 To become the criminal information hub of the European
Union
 To develop further as an EU centrefor law enforcement
expertise
 Using and developing State-of-the-Art Technology
Future:
  Function as the principal EU support centre for law
enforcement operations
 To become the criminal information hub of the European
Union
 To develop further as an EU centre for law enforcement
expertise
 Using and developing State-of-the-Art Technology
Europol VS Interpol
 Interpol and Europol are structured differently and

therefore provide different possibilities for international

law enforcement co-operation.
 Interpol is a network of police agencies in countries
worldwide, whereas Europol mainly supports the EU
Member States.
 Interpol and Europol have different but related roles in the
fight against organize crime and therefore there is no
competition between the organisations.
 To enhance international law enforcement co-operation a
co-operation agreement was signed between the two
organisations in

UNODC
 The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as
the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by
combining the
1. United Nations International Drug Control Program
(UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention
2. Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at
Vienna.
 It is a member of the United Nations Development Group
and was renamed the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime in 2002.
 In 2016 -2017 it has an estimated biannual budget of
US$700 million.
 UNODC relies on voluntary contributions, mainly from
Governments, for 90 per cent of its budget.
 UNODC is a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs
and international crime. UNODC Operates in all regions of
the world through an extensive network of field offices.

UNODC
 UNODC is mandated to assist Member States in their
struggle against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.
 UNODC work is guided by a broad range of international
legally binding instruments, such as the UN Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime and the UN
Convention against Corruption, and a set of UN standards
and norms on crime prevention and criminal justice.
 UNODC covers about 150 countries through its Field office
network (i.e. regional, country and programme offices).
 Besides operating at the national level, the Office is
developing a new generation of regional programmes(i.e.
East Asia and Pacific, Eastern Africa, West Africa, North
Africa/Middle East, Central America/Caribbean, and the
Balkans) to promote the rule of law and human security.
UNODC:OBJECTIVES
 UNODC was established to assist the UN in better
addressing a coordinated, comprehensive response to the
interrelated issues of illicit trafficking in and abuse of
drugs, crime prevention and criminal justice, international
terrorism, and political corruption.
 These goals are pursued through three primary functions:
research, guidance and support to governments in the
adoption and implementation of various crime-, drug-,
terrorism-, and corruption-related conventions, treaties and
protocols, as well as technical/financial assistance to said
governments to face their respective situations and

challenges in these fields.

UNODC: OBJECTIVES
 These are the main themes that UNODC deals with:
 Alternative Development
 Corruption,
 Criminal Justice,
 Prison Reform and Crime Prevention,
 Drug Prevention,
 Treatment and Care
 HIV and AIDS,
 Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling,
 Money Laundering.
 Organized Crime,
 Piracy,
 Terrorism Prevention.
UNODC WORKING
The three pillars of the UNODC work programmeare:
1. Field-based technical cooperation projects to enhance the
capacity of Member States to counteract illicit drugs, crime
and terrorism.
2. Research and analytical work to increase knowledge and
understanding of drugs and crime issues and expand the
evidence base for policy and operational decisions.
3. Normative work to assist States in the ratification and
implementation of the relevant international treaties, the
development of domestic legislation on drugs, crime and
terrorism, and the provision of secretariat and substantive
services to the treaty-based and governing bodies.

UNODC
ORGANIZATION
The Commission is composed of 40 Member States elected by
the Economic and Social Council, with the following
distribution of seats among the regional groups:
 Twelve for African States;
 Nine for Asian States;
 Eight for Latin American and Caribbean States;
 Four for Eastern European States;
 Seven for Western European and other States
 UNAFEI
 The United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the
Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders
(UNAFEI) is a United Nations regional institute,
established in 1962 by agreement between the United
Nations and the Government of Japan, with the aim of
promoting the sound development of criminal justice
systems and mutual cooperation in Asia and the Pacific
Region.
 The main objective of UNAFEI is to
“Promote regional
cooperation in the field of crime prevention and the treatment of
offenders through training and research programs."
 During its 40 years of activity, approximately 2,000
overseas officials and 1,000 Japanese officials have

participated in UNAFEI trainings.

 Current UNAFEI trainings are held seven times a year,
including three major international courses and a corruption
prevention course.
 The goal is to stimulate cooperation, share knowledge, and
strengthen the UNAFEI network.
 One hundred and twenty-five participating countries and
the United Nations are included.
 UNAFEI holds two international training courses and one
international senior seminar annually.
 The international training course that is held in spring deals
mainly with the treatment of offenders, while the one held
 in autumn concentrates on crime prevention and
countermeasures against various crimes.
 The Japanese government has been funding UNAFEI since
1970. Training is financed by the ODA (Official
Development Assistance), which is a corporation assisting
developing countries
 UNAFEI contributes to the planning and implementation of
United Nations policies concerning worldwide crime
prevention and offender treatment,
 UNAFEI is operated under the joint auspices of the
Government of Japan and the United Nations, based on the
exchange of official documents between these two
governing bodies.
 The United Nations International Children’s Emergency
Fund (UNICEF) was created by the United Nations in 1946
to provide food, clothing, and healthcare to the children of
post-World War II Europe.
 In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United
Nations.
 While its name was shortened to United Nations Children
Fund at that time, it is still is referred to as UNICEF.
 UNICEF expanded the scope of its activities in the 1960s to
include advocating for and advancing children’s rights to
education, healthcare, and nutrition.
 UNICEF won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965.
 UNICEF eventually expanded its scope to the struggle of
women, especially mothers, in the developing world. For
example, it launched its ‘Women in Development
Programme’ in 1980.
 In 1982, UNICEF commenced a new children’s health
program that focused on monitoring growth, oral
rehydration therapy, advocating breastfeeding, and
immunization.
 The Executive Board is made up of 36 Member
States, elected to three-year terms by the Economic
and Social Council, with the following regional
allocation: Africa (8 seats),Asia (7), Eastern Europe
(4), Latin America and Caribbean (5) and Western
Europe and Others (12).
 UNICEF has a long history of working in emergencies
and humanitarian contexts, both natural and man-made.
 Originally called the United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund, the organization was
created to provide humanitarian assistance to children
living in a world shattered by the Second World War.
Much has changed since then, but UNICEF’s
fundamental mission has not.
 UNICEF responds to more than two hundred
emergencies every year, informing and shaping these
interventions as a global leader for children.
 UNICEF adapted and simplified its emergency response
procedures based on learning from its experience in
recent large-scale emergencies, including systems to
trigger early action.
 UNICEF: OBJECTIVES
In 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, which UNICEF uses as guidance for its programs.
Mandate and Objectives:
 UNICEF believes that nurturing and caring for children are the
cornerstones of human progress.
 UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind to work with
others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease
and discrimination place in a child’s path.
 We believe that we can, together, advance the cause of humanity.

UNICEF:CORE FUNCTIONS
 Providing Basic Education Infrastructure to the world
 Increasing Child Survival rate in the developing world.
 Gender equality through education for girls.
 Protection of children from any form of violence and abuse.
 Protecting and advocating the rights of children.
 Immunization of infants from different diseases.
 Provision of adequate nutrition and safe drinking water to
children.

IPA
  The International Police Association(IPA) is the largest
organisationfor police officers in the world, founded by
British sergeant Arthur Troop(1914-2000).
 The Association has 64 national Sections and over 420,000
members and associate members.
 The IPA -the largest police organisationin the World -was
founded on 1 January 1950.
 In 1955, at the first International Executive Committee
meeting in Paris, he became the first International Secretary
General, a post he held until 1966.
 Motto of the Association “Servo per Amikeco” -meaning
“Service through Friendship”

IPA: AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

 The Aims of the IPA include the development of cultural
relations amongst its members, a broadening of their
general knowledge and an exchange of professional
experience.
 It seeks to foster mutual help in the social sphere and to
contribute, within the limits of its possibilities, to the
peaceful co-existence of different peoples and to the
preservation of world peace.
 To promote among the police services of all the member
Sections respect for law and order.
 To develop social and cultural activities and to encourage
the exchange of professional experiences
 To enhance the image of the police in the countries of its
member Sections and to help improve relations between the
police and the general public.
 To encourage personal contacts by organizing exchange
visits of individuals and groups, arranging group holidays
and initiating pen-friendships;
 To foster youth exchanges and international youth meetings
with a view to promoting greater tolerance and
understanding between people, and understanding for the
work of the police;
 To facilitate a regular exchange of publications between the
National Sections and to provide an information service for
the National IPA publications containing news on all
subjects of relevance to the Association.
 To promote international publications, and to help with the
preparation of a bibliography of police works and,
wherever possible, of all works connected with the law or
legal matters;
 To facilitate international co-operation through friendly
contacts between police officers of all continents and to
contribute to a mutual understanding of professional
problems.
 Friendship Weeks, Sports Events and Anniversary
Celebrations with social and cultural flavors are held
regularly, both nationally and internationally.
 Professional Study, Exchange or Travel Scholarships are
encouraged in many Sections and are available to those
seeking professional exchanges.
 Hobby Groups, allow members to share their interests with
other like-minded people. For example, Radio Amateurs,
Computer Enthusiasts, Stamp Collectors, Pen-friends, etc.
 Participation of Members’ families: The Association
welcomes and encourages involvement of spouses, partners
and children.
 Social Events are enjoyed at local (Branch) level to
establish and maintain bonds of friendship and
camaraderie.