INTERPOL stands for International Criminal Police Organization. This organization is known as INTERPOL in short. This is an inter-governmental organization having almost all member countries across the globe that share and access data which they have on crimes and criminals. This data is shared and accessed on an international level through INTERPOL. This organization is headquartered in Lyon, France and it is world’s largest police organization intending to curb crimes. INTERPOL facilitates worldwide police cooperation in-order to control crimes. INTERPOL is an international organization working and watching to control crimes with the best of the efforts put in by the organization.
INTERPOL offers a range of technical as well as operational support to government agencies across the globe for making this world a safe place to stay. Borderless crimes such as Corruption, Drug Trafficking, Cybercrime, Counterfeit currency etc. are some of the crimes that are fought against for the common good of humanity by INTERPOL. These crimes affect the society at large and INTERPOL has people from various countries working together to fight back crimes that happen in the globalized world that we live in.
This organization publishes color-coded notices which enables and helps countries to share alerts and information worldwide. One may read about the color-coded notices published in the newspapers. These notices are international requests for cooperation and they also act as alerts allowing police in member countries to share critical crime related information so that the human race is protected to the best extent possible. E.g., Red notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person who is pending any surrender, extradition or any other similar legal action whereas yellow notice is a global police alert for a person who has gone missing. It is published especially for victims of criminal abductions (kidnappings) or unexplained disappearances etc.
