INTERPOL Week 8 Lecture PDF

WEEK 8 LECTURE INTERPOL is the world's largest international police organization, with 190 member countries. Our role is to enable police around the world to work together to make the world a safer place. Our high-tech infrastructure of technical and operational support helps meet the gro...

WEEK 8 LECTURE INTERPOL is the world's largest international police organization, with 190 member countries. Our role is to enable police around the world to work together to make the world a safer place. Our high-tech infrastructure of technical and operational support helps meet the growing challenges of fighting crime in the 21st century. We work to ensure that police around the world have access to the tools and services necessary to do their jobs effectively. We provide targeted training, expert investigative support, relevant data and secure communications channels. The Role of INTERPOL in Crime Control 1. Drug Control – The Criminal Organizations and Drug Sub-Directorate is Crime Directorate of the INTERPOL General Secretariat. a. It is the central repository of professional and technical expertise in drug control within the INTERPOL framework. b. Essentially, it acts as clearing-house for the collection, collation, analysis and dissemination of drug-related information  c. Monitors the drug situation on global scale, coordinates international investigations, and maintains liaison with the United Nation. 2. Children and Human Trafficking – These deals on the dwelling on the plight of women and children trafficked into prostitution and sweatshop work. The main aim of INTERPOL is to promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities. It provides a structured platform for raising awareness, building competence and identifying best practices within law enforcement worldwide. 3. Environment Crime – this is a serious and growing international problem with criminals violating national and international laws put in place to protect the environment. These criminals polluting the air, water and land. They are pushing commercially valuable wildlife species close to extinction and they are significantly impacting the biological integrity of the planet. INTERPOL involvement in the fight against international terrorism The widest possible co-operation and exchange of information is encouraged and the Public Safety and Terrorism Sub-Directorate makes maximum use of INTERPOL’s communication network and central record capability to ensure that all information it receives is treated to maximize subsequent analyses or responses to queries from member countries. The Anti-Terrorism Initiative are: 1. INTERPOL planned new identity travel document database designed to help customs, border patrols and immigration service share police information and verify the authenticity of documents; 2. The feasibility of setting up special aviation database; 3. The financing of terrorism-expansion of anti-money laundering measure and studies of alternative remittance systems. What is the INTERPOL doing to combat terrorism? 1. To prevent acts of international terrorism, if carried out, 2. To ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice INTERPOL MANILA INTERPOL Manila, Philippine Center on Transnational Crime (PCTC) is located at, 2 nd flr, PNP Computer Service Bldg. Camp Crame, Quezon City, 1111 Philippines. INTERPOL Manila is an integral part of the PCTC. Its mission is to serve as the liaison office and main coordinating body for international police cooperation on behalf of all law enforcement agencies in the Philippines. Its main duties are: 1. Monitoring and coordinating law enforcement activities relating to transnational crimes affecting the country. 2. Operating and maintaining an operations center to serve as the focal point for international cooperation on transnational crime for all law enforcement agencies in the country. 3. Acting as NALECC Sub Committee in the monitoring of crime and activities which threaten national security and economy. National Central Bureau (NCB) Manila NCB Manila traces its beginnings in 1961 when the Philippines became a member of the ICPO- INTERPOL, with the NBI as its focal point. Since then the NCB Manila has undergone changes, which enable it to confront the challenges of the times.