Interpol

Purpose: To ensure and promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities, within the limits of the laws existing in the different countries and in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (b) To establish and develop all institutions likely to contribute effectively to the prevention and suppression of ordinary law crimes

Date of Origin: 1923

Current Membership: 177 countries

Director: Raymond E Kendall, Secretary General

Staff: 318 people

Structure:  Interpol's governing bodies are its General Assembly and its Executive Committee; they make decisions and have supervisory powers. The Organisation's permanent departments constitute the General Secretariat which is responsible for implementing the decisions and recommendations adopted by the two deliberative organs and whose close contacts with the INTERPOL National Central Bureaus (NCBs) in the various member countries provide the framework for day-to-day operaions

Location: France

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