A delegation from India to Vienna(Austria) attended the annual INTERPOL General Assembly, the largest gathering of senior law enforcement officials in the world. This year’s General Assembly also marks the 100 anniversary of INTERPOL and returns to the city where the organisation was founded a century ago. The five member delegation from India was led by Director CBI Shri Praveen Sood and included Shri Dinkar Gupta, Director General of National Investigation Agency.
The Indian delegation held discussions with law enforcement agencies from multiple countries for enhanced coordination via INTERPOL channels with a view for concerted action to combat organised crime, terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, online radicalisation, cyber enabled financial crimes and to prevent these crimes on a real-time basis.
India has stressed the need to deny any safe havens for crime, criminals and proceeds of crimes. The need for coordinated strategies to curtail criminal organisations which operate across international jurisdictions was deliberated.
The Indian delegation has held detailed discussions on matters of police cooperation with high level delegations of Austria, UAE, USA, UK, Nepal, Brazil, Australia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Japan, Switzerland, Bangladesh, Singapore and Zambia.
Discussions were held for better sharing of criminal information via INTERPOL channels, to expedite mutual legal assistance and extradition requests. India also supported adoption of INTERPOL’S Vision 2030 and creation of Interpol Future Council.
Indian delegation has also held discussions with senior officials of Interpol, Europol, Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police Organisation and US Air Force Office of Special Investigations on strengthening arrangements for cooperation.
