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Undated: The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO-INTERPOL) more commonly known as Interpol, is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation. It was established in 1923 as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC); it chose INTERPOL as its telegraphic address in 1946, and made it its common name in 1956.[4]
INTERPOL has an annual budget of around €113 million, most of which is provided through annual contributions by its membership of police forces in 181 countries (as of 2018). In 2013, the INTERPOL General Secretariat employed a staff of 756, representing 100 member countries.[1] Its current Secretary-General is Jürgen Stock, the former deputy head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office. He replaced Ronald Noble, a former United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, who stepped down in November 2014 after serving 14 years.[5] Interpol's current President is Kim Jong Yang of South Korea, replacing Meng Hongwei, Deputy Minister of Public Security of China, who is alleged to have resigned via an undersigned postal letter in October 2018 after his detention and disappearance by Chinese authorities on corruption charges.[6]
To keep INTERPOL as politically neutral as possible, its charter forbids it from undertaking interventions or activities of a political, military, religious, or racial nature or involving itself in disputes over such matters.[7] Its work focuses primarily on public safety and battling transnational crimes against humanity, child pornography, cybercrime, drug trafficking, environmental crime, genocide, human trafficking, illicit drug production,[8] copyright infringement, missing people, illicit traffic in works of art, intellectual property crime, money laundering, organized crime, corruption, terrorism, war crimes, weapons smuggling, and white-collar crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol
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Undated: At the request of member countries, we can provide specialized teams to assist their national law enforcement.
There are two types of team: Incident Response Teams and Major Event Support Teams, each made up of experts in the relevant fields. The deployment of these teams is managed by our Command and Coordination Centre.
https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/INTERPOL-response-teams
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November 21: Interpol elects South Korea's Kim Jong-yang as president
Former acting president Kim Jong-yang elected as leader of Interpol, in blow to Moscow's efforts at pushing for Russian.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/interpol-elects-south-korea-kim-jong-yang-president-181121074348523.html
November 21: What We Know About Kim Jong Yang
Interpol elected South Korean national Kim Jong Yang as its new president on Wednesday after lawmakers across the world opposed the candidacy of a Russian official who was close to President Vladimir Putin.
Elections for the role take place in secret and require a two-thirds majority from 192 member countries for an appointment to be made. European and U.S. officials had been lobbying strongly against Russian official Alexander Prokopchuk in recent days, arguing that his appointment would allow Russia to abuse the organization and use it to persecute political opponents. Moscow has previously used Interpol’s red notices to have Putin critics detained.
Kim, 57, had already been working as the organization’s president after the previous head of the international law enforcement agency, Meng Hongwei, was arrested in China under murky circumstances and resigned. Kim has over two decades of experience working for South Korea’s police force, and he is now officially selected for a two-year term at the organization’s helm.
https://www.newsweek.com/what-we-know-about-kim-jong-yang-south-korea-beats-russia-top-interpol-job-1226416
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