INTERPOL

What is Interpol ?

The word 'INTERPOL' is radio-telegraph code for the International Criminal Police Organization which consists of 188 member countries who have agreed to "ensure and promote the widest possible assistance between all criminal police authorities in the prevention and suppression of ordinary law crimes". The Organization's headquarters is in Lyon, France.

The INTERPOL organisation now incorporates 188 member countries, an intergovernmental organisation second in size only to the United Nations, where Interpol also has observer status.International police co-operation has become increasingly complex: differing legal systems, definitions of crimes, rules for evidence, varying responsibilities between law enforcement and judicial services, incompatible extradition laws, incompatible information systems, restrictions on sharing information. These are just a few of the barriers Interpol strives to help the world overcome in the fight against ever higher levels of international crime.

One thing it does not have is the Interpol agents or detectives who travel the world over, chasing spies, murderers, etc. and conducting investigations in different countries. The I.C.P.O.-INTERPOL in fact, is an international police organization to extend co-operation for co-ordinated action on the part of member countries and their police forces which may furnish or request for information or services for combating - international crime.

Interpol Notices

International notices are the main instruments of international police co-operation.  These notices are usually published by the General Secretariat of the ICPO-Interpol at the request of a National Central Bureau.  The General Secretariat may, however, publish blue or green notices on its own initiative.  After publication these notices are circulated to all the NCBs. The purpose of these notices is to supply to the police services of member countries, through their NCBs, certain information about persons or objects. NOTICES ISSUED BY INTERPOL

• Red Notices
• Blue Notices
• Green Notices
• Black Notices
• Stolen Property Notices
• Modus Operandi (MO) Sheets
• Orange Notices
• UN Security Council Interpol Special Notice Notices
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Notice type	Details
  Red Notice	Requests (provisional) arrest of wanted persons, with a view to extradition. An Interpol Red Notice is "the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today." Interpol does not have the authority to issue arrest warrants in the formal sense of the word, as this is the domain of the sovereign member states.
  Yellow Notice	Asks for help locating missing persons (usually minors) or identifying people who are unable to identify themselves.
  Blue Notice	Requests additional information about a person in relation to a crime.
  Black Notice	Seeks 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	Warns police and other international organizations about potential threats from disguised weapons, parcel bombs, or other dangerous materials.
  Purple Notice	To provide information on modi operandi, procedures, objects, devices and hiding places used by criminals.
  Interpol-United Nations Security Council Special Notice	Issued for groups and individuals who are targets of UN sanctions against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. This was created in 2005 at the request of the UN Security Councilthrough the adoption of resolution 1617 and implemented through the adoption of INTERPOL resolution AG-2005-RES-05.