Interpol

• A high-ranking Indian delegation to the 91st Interpol General Assembly has urged other member countries to deny safe havens to crime, criminals, and the proceeds of crime.
• The annual INTERPOL General Assembly had its 91^st session in Vienna, a century after the organization was founded in the Austrian capital.

ABOUT INTERPOL

• The International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) was founded at a police congress convened in 1923 by Johannes Schober, then President of the Vienna Police.
• Headquarters- Lyon, France
• The General Assembly is INTERPOL’s supreme governing body and sets the organization’s programme of activities and financial policy for the coming year.
  • It also elects the President from member countries, who holds the office for a period of 4 years.
  • The day-to-day activities are overseen by a full-time Secretary General elected by the General Assembly, who holds office for five years.
• Its notices are international requests for cooperation or alerts allowing police in member countries to share critical crime-related information.

TYPES OF NOTICE

• Red Notice: To seek the location and arrest of persons wanted for prosecution or to serve a sentence.
• 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, location or activities in relation to a criminal investigation.
• Black Notice: To seek information on unidentified bodies.
• Green Notice: To provide warning about a person’s criminal activities, where the person is considered to be a possible threat to public safety.
• Orange Notice: To warn of an event, a person, an object or a process representing a serious and imminent threat to public safety.
• Purple Notice: To seek or provide information on modus operandi, objects, devices and concealment methods used by criminals.
• INTERPOL–United Nations Security Council Special Notice: Issued for entities and individuals who are the targets of UN Security Council Sanctions Committees.

INTERPOL AND INDIA

• The CBI is the National Central Bureau for Interpol in India and coordinates all international police cooperation requirements of Indian law enforcement agencies via Interpol channels.
• India, which joined Interpol in 1949, had hosted the 90^th Interpol General Assembly in Delhi in October 2022.
• The CBI Academy has also joined the Interpol Global Academy Network to emerge as a global training hub for the Interpol.