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The '''International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL''' (abbreviated as '''ICPO–INTERPOL'''), commonly known as '''Interpol'''<ref name="Name and logo">{{cite web |title=Who we are {{!}} Name and logo |publisher=INTERPOL |url=https://www.interpol.int/Who-we-are/Legal-framework/Name-and-logo |access-date=2024-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026233202/https://www.interpol.int/Who-we-are/Legal-framework/Name-and-logo |archive-date=2023-10-26 |url-status=live}}</ref> ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˈ|ɪ|n|t|ər|p|ɒ|l}} {{respell|IN|tər|pol}}, {{IPAc-en|US|-|p|oʊ|l}} {{respell|-|pohl}};<ref>{{cite book |last=Wells |first=John |author-link=John C. Wells |title=Longman Pronunciation Dictionary |publisher=[[Pearson Longman]] |location=[[Harlow]] |edition=New / Paperback (9th impression) |date=2007 |orig-date=2000 |isbn=978-0-582-36467-7 |page=398 |url=https://archive.org/details/longman-pronunciation-dictionary/page/397/mode/2up?q=Interpol |access-date=2024-01-30 |url-access=limited |via=[[Internet Archive#Text collection|Internet Archive Book Reader]]}}</ref> stylized in allcaps), is an [[international organization]] that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control. It is the world's largest international police organization. It is headquartered in [[Lyon]], France, with seven regional bureaus worldwide, and a National Central Bureau in all 196 member states.<ref name="General Secretariat">{{Cite web |title=General Secretariat |url=https://www.interpol.int/en/Who-we-are/General-Secretariat |url-status=live |access-date=2020-03-19 |website=www.interpol.int |language=en-US |archive-date=30 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330124511/https://www.interpol.int/en/Who-we-are/General-Secretariat }}</ref> | The '''International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL''' (abbreviated as '''ICPO–INTERPOL'''), commonly known as '''Interpol'''<ref name="Name and logo">{{cite web |title=Who we are {{!}} Name and logo |publisher=INTERPOL |url=https://www.interpol.int/Who-we-are/Legal-framework/Name-and-logo |access-date=2024-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026233202/https://www.interpol.int/Who-we-are/Legal-framework/Name-and-logo |archive-date=2023-10-26 |url-status=live}}</ref> ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˈ|ɪ|n|t|ər|p|ɒ|l}} {{respell|IN|tər|pol}}, {{IPAc-en|US|-|p|oʊ|l}} {{respell|-|pohl}};<ref>{{cite book |last=Wells |first=John |author-link=John C. Wells |title=Longman Pronunciation Dictionary |publisher=[[Pearson Longman]] |location=[[Harlow]] |edition=New / Paperback (9th impression) |date=2007 |orig-date=2000 |isbn=978-0-582-36467-7 |page=398 |url=https://archive.org/details/longman-pronunciation-dictionary/page/397/mode/2up?q=Interpol |access-date=2024-01-30 |url-access=limited |via=[[Internet Archive#Text collection|Internet Archive Book Reader]]}}</ref> stylized in allcaps), is an [[international organization]] that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and crime control. It is the world's largest international police organization. It is headquartered in [[Lyon]], France, with seven regional bureaus worldwide, and a National Central Bureau in all 196 member states.<ref name="General Secretariat">{{Cite web |title=General Secretariat |url=https://www.interpol.int/en/Who-we-are/General-Secretariat |url-status=live |access-date=2020-03-19 |website=www.interpol.int |language=en-US |archive-date=30 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330124511/https://www.interpol.int/en/Who-we-are/General-Secretariat }}</ref> | ||
The organization today known as Interpol was founded on 7 September 1923 at the close of a five-day International Police Congress in [[Vienna]] as the '''International Criminal Police Commission''' ('''ICPC''');<ref>Mathieu Deflem, [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TIaJ9bWpgtt99jYqnYg8GOocycRvXLCk/view ''Policing World Society: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation''] (Oxford University Press, 2004) p. 125</ref> it adopted many of its current duties throughout the 1930s. After coming under [[Nazism|Nazi]] control in 1938,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=7. September 1923 – Interpol wird gegründet |language=de |trans-title=September 7, 1923 – Interpol is founded |date=2013-09-07 |work=[[Westdeutscher Rundfunk]] |url=https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag7776.html |access-date=2022-09-07 |archive-date=7 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907091259/https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag7776.html |url-status=live}}</ref> the agency had its headquarters in the same building as the [[Gestapo]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Opinion {{!}} Interpol's Nazi Affiliations Continued After War |first=Gerald |last=Posner |author-link=Gerald Posner |language=en-US |date=1990-03-06 |newspaper= | The organization today known as Interpol was founded on 7 September 1923 at the close of a five-day International Police Congress in [[Vienna]] as the '''International Criminal Police Commission''' ('''ICPC''');<ref>Mathieu Deflem, [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TIaJ9bWpgtt99jYqnYg8GOocycRvXLCk/view ''Policing World Society: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation''] (Oxford University Press, 2004) p. 125</ref> it adopted many of its current duties throughout the 1930s. After coming under [[Nazism|Nazi]] control in 1938,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=7. September 1923 – Interpol wird gegründet |language=de |trans-title=September 7, 1923 – Interpol is founded |date=2013-09-07 |work=[[Westdeutscher Rundfunk]] |url=https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag7776.html |access-date=2022-09-07 |archive-date=7 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907091259/https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag7776.html |url-status=live}}</ref> the agency had its headquarters in the same building as the [[Gestapo]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Opinion {{!}} Interpol's Nazi Affiliations Continued After War |first=Gerald |last=Posner |author-link=Gerald Posner |language=en-US |date=1990-03-06 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A-22 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/06/opinion/l-interpol-s-nazi-affiliations-continued-after-war-137690.html |access-date=2022-09-07 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=7 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907072739/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/06/opinion/l-interpol-s-nazi-affiliations-continued-after-war-137690.html |url-status=live}}</ref> It was effectively stagnant until the end of [[World War II]].<ref name=":0" /> In 1956, the ICPC adopted a new constitution and the name Interpol, derived from its [[telegraphic address]] used since 1946.<ref name="Name and logo"/> | ||
Interpol provides investigative support, expertise and training to law enforcement worldwide, focusing on three major areas of [[transnational crime]]: [[terrorism]], [[cybercrime]] and [[organized crime]]. Its broad mandate covers virtually every kind of crime, including [[crimes against humanity]], [[child pornography]], [[Illegal drug trade|drug trafficking]] and production, [[political corruption]], [[intellectual property infringement]], as well as [[white-collar crime]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sweet O.C. |first1=David |title=INTERPOL DVI best-practice standards—An overview |journal=Forensic Science International |date=September 2010 |volume=201 |issue=1–3 |pages=18–21 |id={{ProQuest|1034458337}} |doi=10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.02.031 |pmid=20303223 }}</ref> The agency also facilitates cooperation among national law enforcement institutions through criminal databases and communications networks. Contrary to popular belief, Interpol is itself not a [[law enforcement agency]]. | Interpol provides investigative support, expertise and training to law enforcement worldwide, focusing on three major areas of [[transnational crime]]: [[terrorism]], [[cybercrime]] and [[organized crime]]. Its broad mandate covers virtually every kind of crime, including [[crimes against humanity]], [[child pornography]], [[Illegal drug trade|drug trafficking]] and production, [[political corruption]], [[intellectual property infringement]], as well as [[white-collar crime]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sweet O.C. |first1=David |title=INTERPOL DVI best-practice standards—An overview |journal=Forensic Science International |date=September 2010 |volume=201 |issue=1–3 |pages=18–21 |id={{ProQuest|1034458337}} |doi=10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.02.031 |pmid=20303223 }}</ref> The agency also facilitates cooperation among national law enforcement institutions through criminal databases and communications networks. Contrary to popular belief, Interpol is itself not a [[law enforcement agency]]. | ||
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Interpol's Command and Coordination Centres offer a 24-hour point of contact for national police forces 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.interpol.int/INTERPOL-expertise/Command-Coordination-Centre |title=Command & Coordination Centre |publisher=Interpol |access-date=9 July 2013 |archive-date=18 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818094524/http://www.interpol.int/INTERPOL-expertise/Command-Coordination-Centre |url-status=live }}</ref> | Interpol's Command and Coordination Centres offer a 24-hour point of contact for national police forces 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.interpol.int/INTERPOL-expertise/Command-Coordination-Centre |title=Command & Coordination Centre |publisher=Interpol |access-date=9 July 2013 |archive-date=18 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818094524/http://www.interpol.int/INTERPOL-expertise/Command-Coordination-Centre |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
Interpol opened a Special Representative Office to the UN in New York City in 2004<ref>{{cite news |title=Order on Interpol Work Inside U.S. Irks Conservatives |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/31interpol.html |work= | Interpol opened a Special Representative Office to the UN in New York City in 2004<ref>{{cite news |title=Order on Interpol Work Inside U.S. Irks Conservatives |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/31interpol.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York |date=30 December 2009 |access-date=24 February 2017 |archive-date=25 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325234559/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/31interpol.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and to the EU in Brussels in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2009/PR086 |title=Official opening of Interpol's office of its Special Representative to the European Union marks milestone in co-operation |publisher=Interpol |location=Brussels |date=25 September 2009 |access-date=9 July 2013 |archive-date=24 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124155736/https://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2009/PR086 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | ||
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, 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/s-pore-interpol-reaffirm-excellent-partn/684180.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130710024419/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/s-pore-interpol-reaffirm-excellent-partn/684180.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 July 2013 |title=S'pore, Interpol reaffirm excellent partnership |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=22 May 2013 |publisher=[[Channel NewsAsia]] |location=Singapore |access-date=9 July 2013}}</ref> | 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, 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/s-pore-interpol-reaffirm-excellent-partn/684180.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130710024419/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/s-pore-interpol-reaffirm-excellent-partn/684180.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 July 2013 |title=S'pore, Interpol reaffirm excellent partnership |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=22 May 2013 |publisher=[[Channel NewsAsia]] |location=Singapore |access-date=9 July 2013}}</ref> | ||