When was interpol created

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Learn about our editorial policies. Updated on April 27, Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for TheBalanceCareers. We also coordinate networks of police and experts in different crime areas, who come together through working groups and at conferences to share experiences and ideas. The General Secretariat provides a range of expertise and services to our member countries. We manage 19 police databases with information on crimes and criminals from names and fingerprints to stolen passports , accessible in real-time to countries.

We offer investigative support such as forensics, analysis, and assistance in locating fugitives around the world. Training is an important part of what we do in many areas so that officials know how to work efficiently with our services.

This expertise supports national efforts in combating crimes across three global areas we consider the most pressing today; terrorism, cybercrime and organized crime. Officials working in each specialized crime area run a variety of different activities alongside member countries. Interpol is the world's third largest international organization, after the United Nations and FIFA ; it currently has member countries. The organization is headquartered in Lyon , France after moving from Saint Cloud, a town located in the vicinity of Paris.

The currently serving president of Interpol is Mr. The current secretary general, Ronald K. Noble, formerly of the U. Treasury Department, is the first non-European to hold the position. Because of the politically neutral role Interpol must play, its constitution forbids any involvement in crimes that do not overlap several member countries, or any political, military, religious, or racial crimes.

Its work focuses primarily on public safety and terrorism , organized crime, war crimes, illicit drug production and trafficking, weapons smuggling, trafficking in human beings, money laundering, child pornography, white-collar crime, high-tech crime, and corruption.

In , the Interpol General Secretariat employed a staff of , representing 78 member countries. Women comprised 42 percent of the staff.