Annex Interpol – The International Criminal Organization

Operation in the Middle East and North Africa targets pharmaceutical crime

Highlights

National Central Bureaus (NCBs)

Competition manipulation: risks and prevention

Drugs analysis and intelligence

Criminals infiltrating Africa’s booming mobile money industry

Quick response

24 hours

An INTERPOL Incident Response Team can be briefed, equipped and deployed anywhere in the world within 12 to 24 hours.

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We manage 18 police databases with information on crimes and criminals, accessible in real-time to countries.

True or False

We can help identify victims of natural and man-made disasters.

Our experts can be deployed to disaster scenes and use forensic data such as fingerprints and DNA matches to help identify victims.

INTERPOL has agents on undercover assignment in all regions of the world.

Contrary to the Hollywood image of INTERPOL, the General Secretariat does not send officers on undercover assignment. All investigations and arrests are carried out by national police in their own country.

Only police can work for INTERPOL.

The General Secretariat employs around 1,000 staff members from 100 different countries. Approximately one-third are police officers deployed by their governments while two-thirds are international civil servants recruited by the Organization.