International Police
| International Police Organization – INTERPOL | |
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| Common name | Interpol |
| Abbreviation | ICPO |
Logo of the International Police Organization – INTERPOL
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| Motto | Connecting police for a safer world |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | September 7, 1923 |
| Employees | 756 (2013) |
| Annual budget | €78 million (2013) €113 million (2017) |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Countries | 192 member countries |
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| Map of International Police Organization – INTERPOL's jurisdiction. | |
| Governing body | Interpol General Assembly |
| Constituting instrument | ICPO-INTERPOL Constitution and General Regulations |
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| Headquarters | Lyon, France |
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| National Central Bureaus | 192 |
| Website | |
| interpol.int | |
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The International Police Organization more commonly known as INTERPOL, is an international organization facilitating international police cooperation. It was established as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) in 1923; it chose INTERPOL as its telegraphic address in 1946, and made it its common name in 1956.
Interpol has an annual budget of around €113 million, most of which is provided through annual contributions by its membership of police forces in 192 countries (as of 2017). In 2013, the Interpol General Secretariat employed a staff of 756, representing 100 member countries. Its current Secretary-General is , 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. Interpol's current President is Meng Hongwei, Deputy Minister of Public Security of China.
To keep Interpol as politically neutral as possible, its charter forbids it, at least in theory, from undertaking interventions or activities of a political, military, religious, or racial nature or involving itself in disputes over such matters. 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 productionpiracy, illicit in works of art, intellectual property crime, money laundering, organized crime, corruption, terrorism, war crimes, weapons smuggling, white-collar crime.
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