Interpol

It wis established as the Internaitional 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 throu annual contreibutions. The organization's heidquarters is in Lyon, Fraunce. It is the seicont lairgest intergovrenmental organization efter the Unitit Naitions.

The first significant muive 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 reest 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. Thay remained thare till 1989, when thay wur moved tae thair present location, Lyon.

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

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1. Tae ensure an promote the widest possible mutual assistance atween aw creeminal polis authorities athin the leemits 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.

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

 

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 Wiki Commons haes media relatit tae Interpol.