INTERPOL’s Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files(CCF) has finished its first session of the year and has listed the 2025 sessions on INTERPOL’s website as follows:
- 131st session: 27 -31 January 2025
- 132nd session: 07- 11 April 2025
- 133rd session: 23-27 June 2025
- 134th session: October 2025 (date not yet specified)
Despite INTERPOL’s rules only requiring three sessions, the CCF has scheduled four, allowing for more cases to be reviewed during the course of the year. The organization did this last year as well. Although the increased number of sessions indicates INTERPOL moving in the right direction, four sessions may not be enough to combat the CCF’s current workload. As stated in a previous RNLJ post discussing 2024’s CCF dates, there currently does not appear to be an adjustment of the number of sessions held to correspond to the workload that the Commission faces.
For example, according to the CCF’s annual activity reports, the CCF received 643 new requests in 2015, and 1,417 in 2021, but convened only four times in both years. This means that INTERPOL’s CCF held the same number of sessions despite receiving over twice as many requests for consideration.
The CCF has been experiencing some delays because of this massive influx of requests, which is concerning considering the remaining low number of CCF meetings. This greatly affects individuals with notices against them, as the longer it takes the CCF to review information, the longer it takes them to remove/edit that information to minimize improper notices being circulated. The next post will address current delays in INTERPOL systems.
As always, thoughts and comments are welcomed.