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LEA 2– COMPARATIVE POLICE SYSTEM

WHAT IS INTERPOL?

- Also known as International Criminal Police Organization, an inter-governmental organization


with 195 member countries.
- World’s largest international police organization.
- It is the police force organization that primarily manifest global or international cooperation in
addressing transnational crime.
- INTERPOL offers support such as forensics, analysis, and assistance in locating fugitives around
the world. This expertise supports national efforts in combating crimes across the three global
areas they considered the most pressing today; terrorism, cybercrime and organized crime.

FOUR CORE FUNCTIONS OF INTERPOL:

- Secure global police communications


- Data services and databases for police
- Support police services
- Police training and development

STRUCTURE OF INTERPOL

1. General Assembly
2. Executive Assembly
3. General Secretariat
4. National Central Bureau
5. Advisers
6. Commission for Control of Interpol’s Files

INTERPOL NOTICES

What is Interpol Notice?

- It is s an international alert circulated by Interpol to communicate information about crimes,


criminals, and threats by police in a member state (or an authorized international entity) to their
counterparts around the world. The information disseminated via notices concerns individuals
wanted for serious crimes, missing persons, unidentified bodies, possible threats, prison
escapes, and criminals' modus operandi.

1. Red Notice – to seek the location or arrest of a person wanted by a judicial jurisdiction or an
international tribunal with a view of his or her extradition.
2. Blue Notice – to locate, identify or obtain information on a person of interest in a criminal
investigation
3. Green Notice – to warn about a person’s criminal activities if that person is considered to be a
possible threat to public safety.
4. Yellow Notice – to locate a missing person or to identify a person unable to identify themselves.
5. Black Notice – to seek information on unidentified bodies
6. Orange Notice – to warn of an event, a person, an object or a process representing an imminent
threat and danger to persons or property.
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7. Purple Notice – to provide information on modus operandi, procedures, object, devices, or


hiding places used by criminals

WHAT IS UN?

- The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193
Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its
founding Charter.
- It is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international
peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation,
and serve as a center for harmonizing the actions of nations.

MAIN BODIES OF UNITED NATIONS

1. UN General Assembly
- May resolve non-compulsory recommendations to states or suggestions to the Security Council
(UNSC);
- Decides on the admission of new members, following proposal by the UNSC;
- Adopts the budget;
- Elects the non-permanent members of the UNSC; all members of ECOSOC; the UN Secretary-
General (following their proposal by the UNSC); and the fifteen judges of the International Court
of Justice (ICJ). Each country has one vote.

2. UN Security Council
- Responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security;
- May adopt compulsory resolutions;
- Has fifteen members: five permanent members with veto power and ten elected members.

3. UN Economic and Social Council


- Responsible for co-operation between states as regards economic and social matters;
- Co-ordinates co-operation between the UN's numerous specialized agencies;
- Has 54 members, elected by the General Assembly to serve staggered three-year mandates.

4. International Court of Justice


- Decides disputes between states that recognize its jurisdiction;
- Issues legal opinions;
- Renders judgment by relative majority. Its fifteen judges are elected by the UN General Assembly
for nine-year terms.

5. UN Secretariat
- Supports the other UN bodies administratively (for example, in the organization of conferences,
the writing of reports and studies and the preparation of the budget);
- Its chairperson—the UN Secretary-General—is elected by the General Assembly for a five-year
mandate and is the UN's foremost representative.
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6. UN Trusteeship Council (currently inactive)


- Was originally designed to manage colonial possessions that were former League of Nations
mandates;
- Has been inactive since 1994, when Palau, the last trust territory, attained independence.

UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME AND FOLLOWING


PROTOCOLS:

- Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Crime.
- Protocols against the smuggling of migrants by land, air and sea, supplementing the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
- Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their parts and
components and ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime.

PARTICIPATION OF PNP PERSONNEL IN UN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS

- Peacekeeping is defined by the United Nations as “A unique and dynamic instrument developed
by the Organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict create the condition for lasting
peace.
- Peacekeepers monitor and observe peace processes in post-conflict areas and assist ex-
combatants in implementing the peace agreements they may have signed. Such assistance
comes in many forms, including confidence-building measures, power sharing arrangements,
electoral support, strengthening the rule of law, and economic and social development.
Accordingly, UN Peacekeepers (often referred to as Blue Beret because of their light blue
helmets) can include soldiers, police officers and civilian personnel
- On 3 April 1992, the PNP began sending its international contigent to peace support operations
and humanitarian relief missions in conflict areas around the world. Although most of these
endeavors were United Nations-launched, there were some deployments made under the “lead
nation” concept or as an initiative of the government of the Republic of the Philippines.

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