INTERPOL headquarters to deploy team to ensure compliance with INTERPOL rules and regulations by Mexican law enforcement officials
19 November 2008 During recent months Mexico’s Attorney General's office has requested a series of arrests be made as part of Operation ‘Limpieza’, its ongoing investigation into information leaks by law enforcement to drug cartels.
The INTERPOL General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France has learned that on Tuesday 18 November, the Mexican Attorney General issued a statement that Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas, the Director for International Police Affairs at Mexico’s Federal Investigative Agency was subject to a ‘40-day provisional arrest’.
INTERPOL Fugitives Conference focuses on international co-operation via global police tools
18 November 2008 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - INTERPOL’s 5th International Conference on Fugitives opened today with more than 170 law enforcement delegates from 70 countries hearing that global co-operation through technological innovation is key to achieving success in fugitive investigations.
Increased use of INTERPOL’s tools is vital, such as expansion of access to the Organization's global police communications system, known as I-24/7, and providing border control officers with access to INTERPOL’s databases on wanted persons. The three-day conference, from 18 to 20 November, will also discuss the use of social networking sites and the Internet in general in identifying and locating wanted persons.
INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 187 member countries. It exists to help create a safer world by supporting law enforcement agencies worldwide to combat crime.
INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with