About INTERPOL Interpol is the world’s largest international police organi- zation, with 186 member countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border ANNUAL REPORT police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authori- ties and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime. Interpol’s General Secretariat is located in Lyon, France, with Sub- Regional Bureaus in Abidjan, Buenos Aires, Harare, Nairobi and San Salvador, a Liaison Office in Bangkok and an office of the Interpol Special Representative to the United Nations in New York. Each member country maintains a National Central Bureau staffed by national law enforcement officers. CONNECTING POLICE SECURING THE WORLD INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION France, Paris Gabon, Libreville Gambia, Banjul Georgia, Tbilisi INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION Germany, Wiesbaden Ghana, Accra Greece, Athens Grenada, St George’s Guatemala, Guatemala City Rwanda, Kigali Interpol General Secretariat Guinea, Conakry St Kitts and Nevis, Basseterre Guinea Bissau, Bissau St Lucia, Castries 200, quai Charles de Gaulle Guyana, Georgetown St Vincent and the Grenadines, Kingstown Haiti, Port au Prince San Marino, San Marino 69006 Lyon Honduras, Tegucigalpa Sao Tome and Principe, Sao Tome France Hungary, Budapest Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Iceland, Reykjavik Senegal, Dakar Tel : (33) 4 72 44 70 00 186 member India, New Delhi Serbia, Belgrade Indonesia, Jakarta Seychelles, Victoria (Mahé) Fax: (33) 4 72 44 71 63 Iran, Tehran Sierra Leone, Freetown countries Iraq, Baghdad Singapore, Singapore E-mail: [email protected] Ireland, Dublin Slovakia, Bratislava Israel, Jerusalem Slovenia, Ljubljana Afghanistan, Kabul Italy, Rome Somalia, Mogadishu Office of the Special Representative of Interpol at the United Nations in New York Albania, Tirana Jamaica, Kingston South Africa, Pretoria Algeria, Algiers Japan, Tokyo Spain, Madrid Andorra, Andorra la Vella Jordan, Amman Sri Lanka, Colombo Angola, Luanda Kazakhstan, Astana Sudan, Khartoum Sub-Regional Bureaus: Antigua and Barbuda, St John’s Kenya, Nairobi Suriname, Paramaribo Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentina, Buenos Aires Korea (Rep. of), Seoul Swaziland, Mbabane Armenia, Yerevan Kuwait, Kuwait City Sweden, Stockholm Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Aruba, Oranjestad Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek Switzerland, Berne Australia, Canberra Laos, Vientiane Syria, Damascus San Salvador, El Salvador Austria, Vienna Latvia, Riga Tajikistan, Dushanbe Azerbaijan, Baku Lebanon, Beirut Tanzania, Dar es Salaam Nairobi, Kenya Bahamas, Nassau Lesotho, Maseru Thailand, Bangkok Harare, Zimbabwe Bahrain, Adaliya Liberia, Monrovia Timor-Leste, Dili Bangladesh, Dhaka Libya, Tripoli Togo, Lomé Barbados, Bridgetown Liechtenstein, Vaduz Tonga, Nuku’alofa Belarus, Minsk Lithuania, Vilnius Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain Liaison Office in Bangkok, Thailand Belgium, Brussels Luxembourg, Luxembourg Tunisia, Tunis Belize, Belmopan Madagascar, Antananarivo Turkey, Ankara Benin, Cotonou Malawi, Lilongwe Turkmenistan, Ashgabat Bhutan, Thimphu Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Uganda, Kampala www.interpol.int Bolivia, La Paz Maldives, Male Ukraine, Kiev Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo Mali, Bamako United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi Botswana, Gaborone Malta, Floriana United Kingdom, London Brazil, Brasilia Marshall Islands, Majuro United States of America, Washington, DC Brunei, Negra Brunei Darussalam Mauritania, Nouakchott Uruguay, Montevideo Bulgaria, Sofia Mauritius, Port Louis Uzbekistan, Tashkent Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou Mexico, Mexico City Venezuela, Caracas Burundi, Bujumbura Moldova, Chisinau Vietnam, Hanoi Cambodia, Phnom Penh Monaco, Monaco Yemen, Sana’a Cameroon, Yaoundé Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar Zambia, Lusaka Canada, Ottawa Montenegro, Podgorica Zimbabwe, Harare Cape Verde, Praïa Morocco, Rabat Central African Republic, Bangui Mozambique, Maputo Sub-Bureaus Chad, N’Djamena Myanmar, Yangon Chile, Santiago Namibia, Windhoëk American Samoa (US), Pago Pago China, Beijing Nauru, Yaren Anguilla (UK), The Valley Colombia, Bogotá Nepal, Kathmandu Bermuda (UK), Hamilton Comoros, Moroni Netherlands, The Hague British Virgin Islands (UK), Road Town, Tortola Congo, Brazzaville Netherlands Antilles, Willemstad Cayman Islands (UK), George Town Congo (Democratic Rep.), Kinshasa New Zealand, Wellington Gibraltar (UK), Gibraltar Costa Rica, San José Nicaragua, Managua Hong Kong (China), Hong Kong Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan Niger, Niamey Macao (China), Macao Croatia, Zagreb Nigeria, Lagos Montserrat (UK), Plymouth Cuba, Havana Norway, Oslo Puerto Rico (US), San Juan Cyprus, Nicosia Oman, Muscat Turks and Caicos (UK), Providenciales Czech Republic, Prague Pakistan, Islamabad Denmark, Copenhagen Panama, Panama City Djibouti, Djibouti Papua New Guinea, Konedobu Dominica, Roseau Paraguay, Asuncion Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo Peru, Lima Ecuador, Quito Philippines, Manila Egypt, Cairo Poland, Warsaw El Salvador, San Salvador Portugal, Lisbon Equatorial Guinea, Malabo Qatar, Doha Eritrea, Asmara Romania, Bucharest Estonia, Tallinn Russia, Moscow Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Fiji, Suva Finland, Helsinki Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Skopje Contents SECRETARY GENERAL’S FOREWORD 2 GOVERNANCE 4 President Selebi carries out Interpol mandate 5 Executive Committee represents Interpol in regions 5 General Assembly passes key resolutions in Rio 5 Regional conferences held in Asia and Europe 6 SERVICES TO GLOBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 8 I-24/7 connects the world’s police 9 Database records and searches increase 9 Operational around the clock 13 4,259 arrests based on notices and diffusions 14 Analysing crime trends and threats 15 KEY PROJECTS IN 2006 16 Enhancing role of National Central Bureaus 17 Creation of academy to fight corruption 18 Centres of anti-crime expertise 18 MIND/FIND: Interpol data in the field 19 Public safety and terrorism 20 Drugs and criminal organizations 21 Trafficking in human beings 24 Financial and high-tech crime 25 Fugitives 27 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS 28 Co-operation with international and regional bodies 29 Joint operations with regional law enforcement 32 SUPPORT SERVICES 34 Human resources 35 Training 35 Communications 35 FINANCES 36 Financial performance in year 2006 37 ANNUAL REPORT 1 Secretary General’s foreword I am proud to present this Annual Report, which provides an overview of our achievements in 2006. I say “our” achievements because they embrace the vision, commitment and hard work of all of Interpol, which includes our President Jackie Selebi, Executive Committee, National Central Bureaus (NCBs), General Secretariat and all of our member countries’ police and law enforcement services. The year 2006 was another historic year for Interpol in so many ways. We celebrated the 50th anniversary of our constitution. In recognition of one of the most important principles enshrined in that document, the 2006 General Assembly adopted a resolution confirming the organization’s neutrality and independence. We welcomed Montenegro and San Marino, the world’s newest and oldest republics, to the Interpol family, increasing our membership to 186 countries. The theme of the 2006 General Assembly – “In the Service of Frontline Police to Secure the World” – points to another historic aspect of the year’s activities. Interpol began rolling out its MIND/FIND technologies, marking the first time in the organization’s history that instant access to Interpol’s database on stolen and lost travel documents (SLTD) was placed directly into the hands of control officers at airports, borders and other field locations around the world. The SLTD database witnessed record growth during the year – 121 countries contributing more than 4 million document numbers, pushing the grand total to more than 13 million. InternatIonal CRIMInal polICE orGanIZatIon 2 The 2006 General Assembly also approved the We began an ambitious initiative to create and defi ne process of creating the world’s fi rst international Interpol Global Anti-Crime Centres (GACCs), which anti-corruption academy for law enforcement. will provide ongoing specialised crime and urgent Progress on this historic initiative moved at a rapid support to all parts of the Interpol family. The concept pace. By year-end, a site was secured in Vienna, of GACCs grew out of our realisation that we must Austria, and implementation of the business and develop more focused, comprehensive and sustained fundraising plans was well underway. approaches to preventing, investigating, prosecuting and fi ghting crime; holistic and innovative ways to Use of Interpol data services and operational more eff ectively pool and utilise the talents, skills, support services continued to reach all-time highs. knowledge and experiences that exist in both the The number of Interpol international notices issued public and private sectors. This is what creating the this year jumped nearly 40 per cent, to an all-time GACCs is all about, and it is critical to our success as an high of 4,556, including the fi rst Interpol notices ever organization. We will be conferring with the organiza- issued at the request of the International Criminal tion’s constituencies throughout 2007 to fl esh out the Court. The number of people arrested who were precise manner in which the GACCs will achieve these subject to Interpol notices or diff usions rose 20 per goals. cent to an all-time high of 4,259. All of us at Interpol’s General Secretariat and offi ces While these remarkable achievements, among others worldwide look forward to