NCJ Number
89577
Journal
Schriftenreiche der Polizei-Fuehrungsakademie Issue: 3 Dated: (1982) Pages: 225-240
Date Published
1982
Length
17 pages
Annotation
Technological advances and increasingly liberalizing social customs and international intercourse are facilitating new and more complex crime forms worldwide. To meet the challenge, crime control efforts at the international level must be enhanced through specific measures and renewed national commitments to multinational cooperation.
Abstract
The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) plays the central role in the international crime control effort, and Germany's Federal Criminal Office is an integral link in INTERPOL's worldwide network of information exchange that transmitted some three-quarters of a million communications during 1980. Nevertheless, only 2,600 offenders were apprehended as a result of international police cooperation in 1980, indicating that the quality of this cooperation needs improvement. Obstacles to greater effectiveness include constraints in the domestic laws of individual countries as well as their political, social, and administrative structures, and their unequal technical and financial resources. Police interaction along border areas must be facilitated through specific bilateral agreements between neighboring countries, operations of INTERPOL's central bureau must be streamlined and updated, and European cooperation channeled through the establishment of a regional bureau for Western Europe.