... The terrorist attacks that occurred in France in 2015 and 2016, which had many victims, proved that it is essential to identify victims following the methodology developed by International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) for such events. Initially designed for natural disasters, this approach must...

... identification postmortem fingerprints digital fingerprint capture INTERPOL DVI ridgeology Disaster victim identification (DVI) is a term that is used to collectively describe the process in which victims of a mass fatality are identified postmortem (PM). Depending on the locale of the DVI event...

.... ⁷ National law enforcement services are provided by the Royal Eswatini Police, which answers directly to the Prime Minister’s office. Eswatini has been a member of INTERPOL since 9 October 1975. The Department of Criminal Investigations is entrusted with the responsibility of crime management...

... encountered in the marketplace. Ghana joined INTERPOL in 1958 and operates its National Central Bureau (NCB) in Accra. INTERPOL Accra is a unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service. ⁹ 347 The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (Customs), formerly known...

..., a weekly newspaper, a secret Mauritanian health services report has revealed that Mauritania harbours several tonnes of falsified medicine. Alakhbar Info added that 30 per cent of medicines used in Mauritania’s subregion are falsified. ⁷ In an INTERPOL-led operation effected...

... are imported, either through the international airports or Namibian ports. The Namibian Police Force (NAMPOL), INTERPOL, and the Department of Customs and Excise within the Ministry of Finance are active in efforts in combatting counterfeit goods in the territory. The Department of Customs and Excise...

.... The study further showed that few Tunisians (3.4 per cent) complained to national institutions. ⁶ The figures available for Customs seizures are an indication of the sheer size of the market. According to INTERPOL figures, the country seized more than US$170 million worth of fake products...

...This chapter suggests that INTERPOL's informal origins and the dual status of its National Central Bureaus contribute to an approach by national courts that seems not to be influenced by either a monist or dualist tradition of incorporating international law into the domestic legal order. Courts...

... of International Law CERN Commission for Control of INTERPOL Files (Conseil) Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche CEO Nucléaire/European Organization for Nuclear Research CFI chief executive o cer CH (European) Court of First Instance Chicago Switzerland Convention CLJ Convention on International Civil...

... units by all countries is very important. As INTERPOL maintains in its brochure, a police squad dedicated to fighting crimes against cultural heritage ‘will help preserve the past, enjoy the present and protect the future’. ⁶³ The sacred value of many cultural objects means that they take...

... information resources with a specific emphasis on TRIPS. ⁹ Botswana has become a dumping ground for counterfeit goods and has been included in INTERPOL-coordinated operations. The Criminal Investigation Department, a branch of the Botswana Police services, has been mandated to focus on, direct...

... and concentrations of market power, prohibiting anti-competitive practices by enterprises against each other, and protecting consumers from unfair trading practices. The Ministry of Industry and Trade is responsible for trade-related aspects of the IP rights. INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau (NCB) in Lilongwe...

... property (IP) rights and are governed by the Nigerian Police Act (Cap. P19, 2004). ¹⁰ INTERPOL’s NCB is the coordination and investigations office for international police enquiries linked to Nigeria. ¹¹ Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) core functions are the collection of revenue...

... counterfeiting and piracy. In the fight against counterfeit medicines, a taskforce of health regulators and customs officials inspects all medicines entering the country at the border, notifying the police (who in turn notify INTERPOL) when something is amiss. Found in East Africa, Rwanda borders the Democratic...

... of industrial property and copyright. São Tomé and Principe has been a member of INTERPOL since 1988. There are no formal reports available on the presence, nature, and extent of counterfeit goods in the region. The Code on Copyright and Related Rights, 2017 ⁸ provides protection of author’s...

.... Police, especially from Austria, sought to internationalize policing through the International Criminal Police Commission (today Interpol). At the same time, jurists from the region sought to unify norms for fighting international crimes as a first step towards a broader project of founding a body...

...Saskia Hufnagel, The Historical Development of International Law Enforcement Cooperation—The Case of Interpol In: Histories of Transnational Criminal Law. Edited by: Neil Boister, Sabine Gless and Florian Jeßberger, Oxford University Press. © Saskia Hufnagel 2021...

...This chapter studies the role of the International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, in the global security architecture. The turbulent history of Interpol can be seen in certain geopolitical controversies of the past, most prominently the Nazi takeover during the Second World War and its...

...The International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) was established at the International Police Congress in Vienna in 1923. Refounded after World War II, the Commission was renamed as the International Criminal Police Organization, abbreviated as ICPO-Interpol, under which label it has acquired...