Interpol General Assembly 2022
90th Interpol General Assembly 2022 is being held in New Delhi. Interpol is important for UPSC Prelims from Current Affairs section. Interpol is also part of UPSC Mains GS Paper 2 (International Organizations).
Interpol General Assembly 2022 in News
- Recently, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed the 90th Interpol General Assembly 2022 in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
- Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister extended a warm welcome to all the dignitaries on the occasion of the 90th Interpol General Assembly in New Delhi.
90th Interpol General Assembly 2022
- About: The General Assembly is Interpol’s supreme governing body and meets once a year to take key decisions related to its functioning.
- INTERPOL Full form: International Criminal Police Organisation is known as Interpol.
- Organization of 90th Interpol general assembly: The 90th General Assembly of Interpol is being held from the 18th to the 21st of October.
- Participation: The Interpol meeting 2022 is being attended by delegations from 195 Interpol member countries comprising ministers, police chiefs of countries, heads of national central bureaus and senior police officers.
Interpol General Assembly and India
- The Interpol General Assembly meeting is taking place in India after a gap of about 25 years – it was last held in 1997.
- India’s proposal to host the Interpol’s General Assembly in 2022 at New Delhi coinciding with celebrations for the 75th year of India’s independence was accepted by the General Assembly with an overwhelming majority.
- The event provides an opportunity to showcase best practices in India’s law and order system to the entire world.
What is Interpol?
- About: the Interpol is a secure information-sharing platform that facilitates criminal investigation of police forces across the globe through collection and dissemination of information received from various police forces.
- Foundation: International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) was set up in 1923.
- Organisational Structure: The head of Interpol is the President who is elected by the General Assembly.
- He comes from one of the member-nations and holds office for four years.
- The day-to-day activities are overseen by a full-time Secretary General also elected by the General Assembly.
- Coordination among member countries: All contact of a country’s law enforcement agency with Interpol is through the highest investigating body of the land. The CBI assumes this role in India.
- Key Role: It keeps track of the movements of criminals and those under the police radar in various regions and tips off police forces which had either sought the Interpol’s assistance or which in its opinion will benefit from the particulars available with it.
- Aided by state-of-the art databases and computer analytics, the Interpol operates round the clock and employs some of the best minds in the area of crime analysis and technology.
- It aims to promote the widest-possible mutual assistance between criminal police forces.
International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol)