Interpol

New ways in which to identify fake security devices on banknotes, passports and other secured documents will be at the heart of the Optical Document Security Conference for central banks, ID issuers and authorities, banknote and ID printers/integrators and secure document component suppliers. The Optical…

The UK will host the General Assembly of the international policing organisation Interpol in 2024 – the largest global gathering of senior law enforcement officials and heads of ministries. The announcement was made during the 88th Interpol General Assembly in Santiago, Chile following a vote by…

The Interpol General Assembly has voted to appoint Jürgen Stock for a second term as Secretary General of the 194-member organisation. Nominated by Interpol’s Executive Committee as its candidate, delegates voted unanimously to re-appoint Stock as the head of the world police body. He was first…

More than 400 experts gathered at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague for what became one of the world’s biggest platforms of exchange on the subject of cyber crime. Under the theme of ‘Law Enforcement in a Connected Future’, the 7th Europol-Interpol Cyber Crime Conference looked…

Europol’s 2019 cyber crime report provides insights into emerging threats and key developments. Cyber crime is continuing to mature and becoming more and more bold, shifting its focus to larger and more profitable targets as well as new technologies. Data is the key element in cyber…

Foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) use the Internet and social media for a diverse range of terrorist activities, from recruitment and radicalisation through to planning and funding. In response, Interpol and the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCTC) have jointly produced a handbook to help investigators collect,…

Strengthening its membership’s capacity to serve national and regional policing needs was the focus of an international Interpol meeting that ran from 9-11 April. The 15th Heads of National Central Bureaus (NCBs) Conference enabled 145 countries to endorse a series of recommendations to strengthen the…

BT has announced the appointment of Kevin Brown as managing director of BT Security, where he will be responsible for the company’s physical and cyber security activity around the world. Brown succeeds Mark Hughes, who’s stepping down from the role at the end of this…

Home Secretary Sajid Javid has confirmed that a new UK-France Co-ordination and Information Centre has opened in Calais as part of the ongoing co-operation between the UK and France to tackle criminality at the border.  The Information Centre will see the UK’s Border Force working…

International experts working to counter the threat of chemical and explosive terrorism are currently gathered together to develop a comprehensive network designed to improve global chemical safety and security.  With increasingly sophisticated methods and technologies now being used to carry out devastating atrocities, this first…