Interpol celebrates the centenary of its creation in Vienna

by times news cr

2024-04-27 13:18:15

Throughout the current year, these celebrations have been an opportunity to emphasize Interpol’s unique position as the only organization whose mandate and technical infrastructure enable the sharing of police information on a global scale, and its central role in the international security architecture.

“Since its creation, the organization has carried out countless operations during which criminals have been arrested, children have been rescued, weapons, drugs and illicit products have been seized,” said the Interpol president. , Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi, during the opening ceremony.

“We should all be proud of these achievements,” he said, noting that “no country or region should be left behind in the fight against crime.”

Assuring that Interpol “will remain committed to the progress and well-being of all member countries”, Mr. Al-Raisi stressed that the organization “will face many challenges in the coming decades for which we should be prepared.” .

“In this regard, we will present a new vision, which will allow us to strengthen our cooperation and adopt a global and more comprehensive approach,” he said.

The Austrian Federal Chancellor, Karl Nehammer, stressed, for his part, that one hundred years after its creation, Interpol can now write a new chapter in the fight against international organized crime.

This centenary is, according to him, an opportunity to measure the progress made. “100 years ago, Vienna’s police chief summoned police delegations to Austria to build a network, at a time when this was unusual. From an organization that began in 1923 with 20 countries, we “We are here today,” he recalled.

“If we have come together, it is to fight together against organized crime, terrorism, cybercrime, drug, arms and human trafficking, as well as all the threats you face in your work daily,” he added.

Interpol Secretary General Jürgen Stock assured, for his part, that the organization will continue to draw on a century of experience to give its member countries the means to meet the new challenges they will face in police action over the next 100 years and beyond.

“We will now have to tackle the security crisis posed by transnational organized crime, which calls for a global response,” he argued in an editorial, published on this occasion.

According to him, “in a fragmented world, transmitting a message for greater global unity is a challenge, but without greater information sharing, more cooperation and without giving every police officer in every community the necessary tools to recognize and combat transnational organized crime, no country in the world will be able to cope with it.”

“This epidemic can only be combatted through urgent and coordinated global action, greater cooperation between countries and regions and by investing in shared technology,” he concluded.

If Interpol was officially founded in 1923, the idea of ​​its creation was born during the first International Judicial Police Congress in Monaco, in April 1914. But the project had to be put on hold, due to the outbreak of the First World War. The idea of ​​an international police body was revived by Johannes Schober, the Vienna police chief. He organized the Second International Judicial Police Congress in Vienna in 1923, attended by representatives from 20 countries.

On September 7, 1923, the participants decided to create the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC). The overall objective of the CICP was to ensure mutual assistance between police forces from different countries. Its structure and goals are presented in a series of resolutions. In 1956, after acquiring a more modern status, the ICPC became the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO-INTERPOL).

Since its creation, the work of the organization has been structured around a certain number of themes. This includes linking police forces, through direct contact between police forces from different countries, with a view to facilitating cross-border investigations, promoting rapid communication between countries to locate and arrest criminals as quickly as possible, develop the identification of criminals, standardize files and strengthen extradition mechanisms.

Interpol manages global databases containing police information relating to criminals and crimes, provides operational and forensic support, provides analytical services and organizes training. These policing capabilities are made available around the world and support four global programs on financial crime and corruption, counter-terrorism, cybercrime, and organized and new forms of crime.

2024-04-27 13:18:15

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