ICPO-Interpol - General Assembly 66th Session - New Delhi - 15th-21st October 1997

NOTING the contents of Report No. 18 regarding Interpol - A Source of Criminal Information and Intelligence,

RECOGNIZING the key role of information sharing and the development of intelligence in the process of international law enforcement co-operation,

ACKNOWLEDGING the significant progress made to this end in the development and
implementation of computer systems by the General Secretariat of the ICPO-Interpol and in
the Organization's member countries,

AWARE that the full potential of these systems and the various specific crime-related projects which the General Secretariat is called upon to carry out can only be realised through
a consistent and maintained supply of information through the National Central Bureaus to the
General Secretariat,

The ICPO-Interpol General Assembly, meeting in New Delhi from 15th to 21st October 1997 at its 66th session:

CALLS UPON each member country to review the role contribution and capability of its NCBs in:

(a) the provision of information to the General Secretariat and other countries, and

(b) the dissemination of information from these sources within their countries, having particular regard to the value of providing to operational law enforcement units information which is timely, accurate, relevant and complete.

URGES member countries which have not already done so to give serious consideration to the appointment within each National Central Bureau of an Intelligence Co-ordinator whose responsibility it would be:

(a) to create and maintain an awareness within the National Central Bureau and the various operational law enforcement units in the country concerned of (i) the capacity of Interpol to provide information which is relevant to their needs and (ii) the value of all member countries playing their part in providing relevant information to feed the databases and

(b) to stimulate and co-ordinate the flow of information via the NCB to the General Secretariat for this purpose.

DECIDES that the appointment of an Intelligence Co-ordinator within each NCB should become a Service Standard within the context of the policy guidelines 'The National Central Bureaus of the ICPO-Interpol: Policy" adopted by the 63rd session of the General Assembly (Rome, 1994).