INTERPOL

(International Police Criminal

Organization)

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 INTERPOL
CORE FUNCTIONS

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 INTERPOL
CORE FUNCTIONS
1. Secure global police communication services.
2. Operational data services and databases for
police.
3. Operational police support services.
4. Police training and development.

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 SECURE GLOBAL POLICE
COMMUNICATION SERVICES
 INTERPOL’s global police communications system,
known as I-24/7, enables police in all member
countries to request, submit and access vital data
instantly in a secure environment.

 It provides police around the world with a common

platform through which they can share crucial
information about criminals and criminality.

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 I-24/7
 Countries use this secure network to contact
each other and the General Secretariat.
 It also allows them to access Interpol’s
databases and services in real-time, from both
central and remote locations.

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 SECURE GLOBAL POLICE
COMMUNICATION SERVICES
 Through a single-entry portal, member
countries have access to complete messaging
services, as well as regular Interpol General
Secretariat police services. These includes:

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OPERATIONAL DATA SERVICES AND DATABASES FOR
POLICE
 It ensures that police worldwide have access to
the information and services they need to
prevent and investigate crimes.

 Databases includes data or information on

criminals such as names, fingerprints, DNA
profiles and stolen or lost travel documents and
vehicles etc.

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1. Individuals Nominal database
2. The International Child Sexual Exploitation image
Database
3. Fingerprint identification system (AFIS)
4. DNA Profiles Database
5. Facial Recognition System database
6. Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) Database
7. Stolen Administrative Documents (SAD) Database
8. The Digital INTERPOL Alert Library – Document (Dial-
Doc)
9. Edison (Electronic Documentation and Information
System on Investigation Networks)

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10. Motor vehicle and Stolen Cars Database
11. Stolen Vessels Database
12. The Works of Art Database
13. The INTERPOL Firearms Reference Table
14. The INTERPOL illicit Arms Records and tracing
Management System (iARMS)
15. The INTERPOL Ballistic Information Network
(IBIN)
16. Organized Crime Networks
17. Maritime Piracy Database
18. Notices Database
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 INTERPOL’s DATABASE:

INDIVIDUALS
NOMINAL
DATABASE
Collect personal data
and the criminal history
of people subject to
request for
international police
cooperation.

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THE INTERNATIONAL
CHILD SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION IMAGE
DATABASE
 Uses sophisticated image
comparison software to
make connections between
victims, abusers and places.
 The aim is to identify, locate
and arrest perpetrators, and
to remove victims from
harm.

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FINGERPRINT
IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
(AFIS)
Authorized users in member
countries can view, submit and
cross-check records in the
fingerprints database via a
user-friendly automatic
fingerprint identification
system (AFIS).

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FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AFIS)
CHECKS
Through the AFIS gateway, users receive the results of their
checks very quickly;

For individuals who are unknown in the database, this takes

only a few minutes (automatic search)­
For individuals known in the database, this takes about an hour
(semi-automatic search)­
For unidentified latent prints from a crime scene, this takes
about an hour (manual process)
The automated process means the database can make more
than 1,000 comparisons per day. The system is also capable of
searching and filing palm prints.
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DNA PROFILES DATABASE

This database contains DNA
profiles from offenders, crime
scenes, missing persons and
unidentified bodies.

Created in 2002, INTERPOL’s

DNA database currently
contains more than 180,000
profiles contributed by 84
member countries.

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FACIAL RECOGNITION
SYSTEM DATABASE
The Facial Recognition System
database provides a dedicated
platform to store and cross-
check images for the purpose
of identifying fugitives, missing
persons and persons of
interest.

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STOLEN AND LOST TRAVEL

DOCUMENTS (SLTD)
DATABASE
The SLTD database contains
records on lost, stolen and
revoked travel documents –
such as passports, identity
cards, visa stamps, including
stolen blank travel documents.

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STOLEN AND LOST TRAVEL

DOCUMENTS (SLTD) I-Checkit
DATABASE
Help identify and stop
criminals from using lost
or stolen travel documents
long before they get to the
airport or the border.

A positive ‘hit’ will be

relayed to law
enforcement, to take any
necessary actions.
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STOLEN ADMINISTRATIVE
DOCUMENTS (SAD)
DATABASE
The SAD database contains
records of stolen official
documents that serve to
identify objects, for example,
vehicle registration documents
and clearance certificates for
import/export.

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THE DIGITAL INTERPOL

ALERT LIBRARY –
DOCUMENT (DIAL-DOC)
is a joint G8-INTERPOL
initiative, which allows
countries to share at global
level alerts produced nationally
on newly detected forms of
document counterfeiting.

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 The Group of Eight (G8)
Industrialized Nations

refers to the group of eight.

highly industrialized nations—
France, Germany, Italy, the
United Kingdom, Japan, the
United States, Canada, and
Russia—that hold an annual
meeting to foster consensus on
global issues like economic
growth and crisis management,
global security, energy, and
terrorism.
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EDISON (ELECTRONIC
DOCUMENTATION AND
INFORMATION SYSTEM ON
INVESTIGATION
NETWORKS)
provides examples of genuine
travel documents, in order to
help identify fakes. It contains
images, descriptions and
security features of genuine
travel and identity documents
issued by countries and
international organizations.

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MOTOR VEHICLE AND

STOLEN CARS DATABASE
This database contains extensive
identification details from all
types of motor vehicles (cars,
trucks, trailers, heavy
machinery, motorbikes) and
identifiable spare parts reported
as stolen.

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STOLEN VESSELS
DATABASE
The Stolen Vessels
database serves as a
centralized tool for tracing
and tracking stolen vessels
and engines.

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THE WORKS OF ART

DATABASE
The Works of Art database
contains descriptions and
pictures of cultural objects
reported as stolen by the
member countries and
international partners such as
the International Council of
Museums and UNESCO. It
includes items looted during
crisis periods in Afghanistan,
Iraq and Syria.

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THE INTERPOL FIREARMS

REFERENCE TABLE
It is an interactive online
tool that provides a
standardized methodology
to identify and describe
firearms more accurately so
they can then be traced in
cross-border investigations.

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THE INTERPOL ILLICIT ARMS

RECORDS AND TRACING
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(iARMS)
is the only global law
enforcement platform to
support the transnational
tracing of illicit, lost or stolen
firearms. It improves
information exchange and
cooperation between law
enforcement agencies on
terrorism and other firearm-
related crimes.
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THE INTERPOL BALLISTIC
INFORMATION NETWORK
(IBIN)
is the only large-scale
international ballistics data
sharing network in the world. It
provides intelligence to law
enforcement agencies through
the centralized storage and
cross-comparison of ballistics
imaging in order to find
connections between crimes
from different countries that
might otherwise remain
undetected.
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ORGANIZED CRIME
NETWORKS DATABASE
The purpose of these databases
is to improve the collection and
exchange of intelligence,
support investigations, and
better analyze the crime
networks, leading to the
identification and arrest of their
leaders and financiers.

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MARITIME PIRACY
DATABASE
The maritime piracy database
stores intelligence related to
cases of piracy and armed
robbery at sea, including data on
individuals, telephone numbers,
e-mail addresses, piracy
incidents, locations, businesses
and financial information.

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NOTICES DATABASE
Is an international alert
circulated by Interpol to
communicate information about
crimes, criminals, and threats
from police in a member state to
their counterparts around the
world.

are international requests for

cooperation or alerts allowing
police in member countries to
share critical crime-related
information.
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 OPERATIONAL POLICE SUPPORT SERVICES

 It supports law enforcement officials in the field with

emergency support and operational activities, especially in its
priority crime areas of fugitive, public safety and terrorism,
drugs and organized crime, trafficking in human beings and
financial high-tech crimes.
 A Command and Coordination Centre operates 24 hours a day,
seven days a week and can deploy an Incident Response Team
to the scene of a serious crime or disaster.

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1. INTERPOL’S COMMAND AND COORDINATION CENTER
is the operations room at
INTERPOL, offering a point
of contact for any member
country seeking urgent
police information or
facing a crisis situation.

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2. INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAM
An INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) is a team of
experts deployed at the request of a member country
during a crisis situation. There are two types of IRT:

Disaster – an emergency response to unforeseen

catastrophic events, such as large-scale accidents or
natural disasters. Disaster IRTs generally provide disaster
victim identification (DVI) assistance;
Crime – the deployment of specialized personnel to assist
and support a member country faced with a major or
serious police issue. Crime IRTs provide specific expertise
and investigative support to police.
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 INCIDENT REPONSE TEAM
The first IRT was deployed in
October 2002 to Indonesia
following a terrorist bombing
in Bali. To date, a total of 117
teams have been deployed.

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3. INTERPOL NETWORK OF EXPERT

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4. INTERPOL VULNERABLE TARGETS REFERRAL CENTER
 act as an intermediary,
facilitating the exchange of
information in the area of
vulnerable target protection.
 identify responsible units and
relevant experts in countries
where vulnerable target
protection strategies have
already been developed and
have this contact information
available in order to bring
those with relevant expertise
together with those who are in
need of such information.
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5. INTERPOL MAJOR EVENT SUPPORT TEAMS
 is deployed to assist member countries in the preparation,
coordination and implementation of security arrangements for
major international events.

 Events such as high profile conferences or sporting events attract

large crowds or intense media coverage. As such, they may also
attract individuals or groups intending to disrupt such events to
gain attention for their cause or for criminal purpose.

 The threat of terrorism and event disruption has forced host

countries to dedicate more time and resources to be prepared to
cope with any situation. Increasingly, member countries are
requesting support from INTERPOL, not only in the lead up to an
event but for its duration.
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5. INTERPOL MAJOR EVENT SUPPORT TEAMS
An IMEST also has the capacity
and resources to become an
Incident Response Team if a
crisis situation should happen
at a major event.

The first IMEST was deployed in

2002 to the USA for the Winter
Olympic Games in Salt Lake
City. To date, more than 127
teams have been deployed to
countries across the world.
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 POLICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
 INTERPOL provides focused police training
initiatives with the aim of enhancing the capacity
of member countries to effectively combat
transnational crime and terrorism.
 This includes sharing knowledge, skills and best
practices in policing and establishing global
standards.

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 POLICE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
 Plays a key role in INTERPOL’S overall
mission to promote international police
cooperation.
 Aim to help officials in INTERPOL’S
member countries to improve their
operational effectiveness, enhance their
skills and build their capacity to address
the increasingly globalized and
sophisticated nature of criminality today.
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