Interpol

Interpol heidquarters in Lyon, Fraunce.

Interpol, whose full name is the International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL (Scots: Internaitional Creeminal Polis Organization), is an organization facilitatin internaitional polis cooperation. It wis established as the International Criminal Police Commission in 1923 an adoptit its telegraphic address as its common name in 1956.

Its membership o 188 kintras provides finance o aroond $59 million through annual contributions. The organization's heidquarters is in Lyon, Fraunce. It is the seicont lairgest intergovrenmental organization efter the Unitit Naitions.

History

The first significant move towards creatin INTERPOL wis in 1914 at the First Internaitional Creeminal Polis Congress. Police officers, lawyers an magistrates frae 14 kintras gathered in Monaco tae discuss arrest procedures, identification techniques, centralized internaitional creeminal records an extradition proceedins. Housomeivver Warld War I delayed this initiative an it wis no till 1923 that Interpol wis foondit in Austrick as the Internaitional Creeminal Police (ICP).

Follaein the Anschluss (Austrick's annexation bi Germany) in 1938, the organization fell unner the control o Nazi Germany, an the Commission's heidquarters wur eventually moved tae Berlin in 1942. Frae 1938 tae 1945, the presidents o Interpol includit Otto Steinhäusl, Reinhard Heydrich, Arthur Nebe, an Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Aw wur generals in the SS, an Kaltenbrunner wis the heichest rankin SS officer executit efter the Nuremberg Trials. Reinhard Heydrich wis assassinatit bi Czech (Kubiš) an Slovak (Gabčík) patriots in 1942.

Efter the end o World War II in 1945, the organization wis revived as the Internaitional Creeminal Polis Organization bi European Allied offeecials frae Belgium, Fraunce, Scandinavie an the Unitit Kinrick. Its new heidquarters wur establisht in Saunt-Cloud, a toun on the ootskirts o Paris. They remained there till 1989, when they wur moved tae their present location, Lyon.

Constitution

The role o Interpol is defined bi the general proveesions o its Constitution.

In airticle 2

1. Tae ensure an promote the widest possible mutual assistance atween aw creeminal polis authorities athin the limits o the laws existin in the different kintras an in the spirit o the Universal Declaration o Human Richts.
2. Tae establish an develop aw institutions likely tae contribute effectively tae the prevention an suppression o ordinary law creemes.

In airticle 3

It is strictly forbidden for the Organization tae unnertake ony intervention or activities o a poleetical, military, releegious or racial character.

Secretaries-general an presidents

Ronald Noble at 6t Global Congress aboot combatin piracy an coonterfeiltin

Secretaries-general syne organization's inception in 1923:

Oskar Dressler	1923-1946
Louis Ducloux	1946-1951
Marcel Sicot	1951-1963
Jean Népote	1963-1978
André Bossard	1978-1985
Raymond Kendall	1985-2000
Ronald Noble	2000–present

Presidents syne organization's inception in 1923:

Johann Schober 1923-1932 Franz Brandl 1932-1934 Eugen Seydel 1934-1935 Michael Skubl 1935-1938 Otto Steinhäusl 1938-1940 Reinhard Heydrich 1940-1942 Arthur Nebe 1942-1943 Ernst Kaltenbrunner 1943-1945 Florent Louwage 1945-1956 Agostinho Lourenço 1956-1960 Richard Jackson 1960-1963 Fjalar Jarva 1963-1964 Firmin Franssen 1964-1968 Paul Dickopf 1968-1972 William Leonard Higgitt 1972-1976 Carl Persson 1976-1980 Jolly Bugarin 1980-1984 John Simpson 1984-1988 Ivan Barbot 1988-1992 Norman Inkster 1992-1994 Björn Eriksson 1994-1996 Toshinori Kanemoto 1996-2000 Jesús Espigares Mira 2000-2004 Jackie Selebi 2004-2008 Arturo Herrera Verdugo actin preses till the General Assembly in Saunt Petersburg in October 2008, an candidate for the Preses on that General Assembly Khoo Boon Hui Oct 2008–present References Wikimedia Commons haes media adae wi: Interpol