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INTERPOL: International Criminal Police Organization
Eric Goedtel
November 19, 2008
Interpol and its member states have on one hand, a very broad assortment of specialties and focal points that it attempts
to coordinate. On the other hand, Interpol focuses on these points intensely, providing member nations with intelligence
and information vital to the tracking of wanted persons, either suspects, witnesses, or victims. Specifically, Interpol
focuses on:
- Drug Trafficking
Specifically, the operation of international cartels that operate and distribute in multiple countries and states.
- Human Trafficking
Again, primarily with slave trading rings that export from one country to another member country.
- Organized Crime
Specifically OC in the sense of established mafias and gangs with an international presence.
- White-Collar Crime
Interpol actively provides information on 419 scams, international phishing, as well as bank, wire, and, telephone fraud.
- Fugitive Recovery
This organization is crucial to providing and centralizing intelligence on fugitive and witness whereabouts, as well as
provides large infrastructure for identifying bodies of people travelling under false pretenses.
- Counterterrorism
The international implications of terrorism is fairly self-explanatory, as member nations provide Interpol with wanted persons
and falsified travel documents of alleged terrorists.
- Corruption
Interpol focuses on corruption of nations at the Federal level only when the implications of such charges transcend national
boundaries or interests.
Image courtesy of Interpol.
All other information © March 2008 Eric Goedtel
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