INTERPOL enables police in our 196 member countries to work together to fight international crime.

In each country, an INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) provides the central point of contact for the General Secretariat and other NCBs. An NCB is run by national police officials and usually sits in the government ministry responsible for policing.

INTERPOL is a membership-based organization, and the General Secretariat is the body that coordinates all our policing and administrative activities. It is run by the Secretary General ; currently Valdecy Urquiza of Brazil, who was appointed by the General Assembly in …

National police can search our databases in real time as part of their investigations. This can be done via their INTERPOL National Central Bureau, or directly at the frontline, for instance by specialized crime units and border officials. Databases are accessed via I-24/7, our secure global police communications system.

You can get in touch with INTERPOL using the form below. Your message will be forwarded to the appropriate department but please note that we are unable to respond to all queries.

Each of our member countries hosts an INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB). This connects their national law enforcement with other countries and with the General Secretariat via our secure global police communications network called I-24/7. NCBs are at the heart of INTERPOL and how we work.

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This list is regularly updated by the INTERPOL General Secretariat based on information provided by the countries that request the issuance of the notices and their publication on this website. Notices

Official name. Our full name is “The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL”, which is abbreviated to "ICPO–INTERPOL". For general communications purposes, we just say INTERPOL. It is an abbreviation of "international police" and it was chosen in 1946 as a telegraphic address.

The idea behind the creation of INTERPOL in 1923 was to find ways to help police in different countries to cooperate on solving crimes, notably through arrest and extradition procedures, identification techniques and the idea of centralized criminal records.