An Interpol Attorney's Perspective on Red Notices, International Extradition and Related Matters
In a continuation of a series of posts about the CCF’s Annual Report for 2011, today’s post focuses on a perhaps surprising, but apparently common, occurence in INTERPOL member country courts around the world.
In its Annual Report, the CCF noted that many domestic courts were confused about INTERPOL’s role in extradition proceedings. The…
INTERPOL’s role in the world of law enforcement, boiled down to its bare bones, is to aid its member countries with two things: 1) alerting them to the movement of wanted persons, and 2) assisting in the apprehension of wanted persons. The alerting is normally accomplished via a member country’s request for a Red Notice.
A fellow attorney contacted me recently with a common question. The inquiry was as follows:
After I requested that a Red Notice against my client be removed, I received no answer, but it disappeared from INTERPOL’s website. Can I assume that it has been removed?
As with any question about assumptions, the answer is that…
A reader posted this comment recently:
Just wanted to know if a person committed a crime 28 years ago and has been on the run ever since, would that individual be on the Interpol red list if he tries to fly internationally?
We naturally assume that the question is merely one of curiousity, and posed…
Not too far in the future, INTERPOL’s General Assembly will gather in Rome for its annual meeting. The General Assembly is charged with making decisions about how the organization will be run in the coming year, and considers everything from general policy matters to resources to electing the members of the Executive Committee. From November…
In honor of Halloween, many of us decorate with images of scary jack-o-lanterns, witches, ghosts, and the like. We expect people to surprise us from around the corner, and to yell “Boo!” when we don’t expect it. Part of the fun of being scared on Halloween is knowing that the fright is only temporary, and…
While there is no doubt that INTERPOL holds great power over the lives of people who are the subjects of its notices, and that INTERPOL has one of the strongest international networks in the world, we are reminded this week of the fact that INTERPOL does not own the information in its files.
Every INTERPOL…
Many Red Notice subjects simply want to move forward with their lives when their names are removed from INTERPOL’s databases. That decision is understandable, given the vast amount of time, resources, and energy that are required to live through the events leading up to a Red Notice being issued and to actually challenge the Red…
INTERPOL is working with the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency to fight corruption related to World Bank funded projects. The effort, described here, is certainly a worthy one. The idea behind this, or any anti-corruption campaign, is that support will be provided to countries so that they can cull out the corrupt elements of their…
Red Notice subjects who are considering challenging their Red Notices have frequently exhausted all of their other options. Their efforts to show investigating police officers that they are innocent have failed; they have been charged and improperly convicted despite mutliple law violations by government officials; and they have fled their countries due to a very…
