DEFINITION OF THE INTERPOL

Few people know the answer to this question. "This is - the international police organization," - said the majority. And if you ask what the Interpol, the answer will follow very non-specific: "He is responsible for coordinating the international police," or "It's like an international police postal service."

Headquartered in Lyon is not only a center for the entire network of Interpol, and the Regional Centre (RC) for Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as North America and the Middle East. Five CS related computer network and radio, also function as a regional center.

Nairobi - East Africa,

Abidjan - West Africa,

Buenos Aires - for South America,

Tokyo - for Asia,

Puerto Rico - for the Caribbean and Central America.

In addition, the Centre is located in Bangkok, communication and coordination of efforts to fight drug trafficking, sprawling all over the world with the infamous opium plantations of the "Golden Triangle" - the area where the borders are closed in Thailand, Laos and Burma.

Five minutes at the headquarters of Interpol

It is similar to frames of an ordinary film version of James Bond. Huge sterile clean room, cool and does not stand out - such a study could be anywhere, in any country of the world. And in fact, we are in the help-desk department (I&R), which is located on the third floor of the "fortress" made of glass and granite, which give the impression of impregnability by deep trench and a steel fence, guarded the most advanced electronic devices of control security.

Since Biblical times, when Cain killed Abel, there is crime. Along with violence, lust and envy mankind for a long time accompanied by murder, rape and theft . The ancient Romans minted fake coins in ancient Greece robbery is a crime, and in London at the beginning of XIX century, for every 22 residents there was one culprit. There has never been a people who have had the exclusive right to virtue. Nevertheless, up to the XVIII century, the power was not interested crime. France, Germany, Austria and Russia maintained their own State Police, using it for political repression, as a bulwark of tyranny, but not to combat with the criminal world.

In the early 90's of the last century, the Berlin police chief can say with confidence: if the witness is able to determine the growth of the robber to within three inches, show him photographs of known criminals, with growth in this range and the offender will be found. And in Vienna in those years a complex system of registration of offenders, including the smallest details, down to religion of suspectwas developed.

Finally, it made ​​an important discovery of XIX century in the field of criminology - the identification of the perpetrator by fingerprints on the basis that the world no two people have the same fingerprints. Most believe that the first time this method was applied, at the beginning of this century metropolitan Police headed by Commissioner outstanding se-rum Edward Henry. In fact, Argentina in 1896 used it as the basis for a national system of identification of criminals after the local police chief Juan Yusetich found in Buenos Aires, the murderer, identify it on the bloody thumbprint, abandoned on the door.

Date: 2015-01-29; view: 877