Investigating Interpol
This Is Why
Sky News
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
They’ve heard from people caught up in a system which allows police forces to flag their most wanted persons at international borders around the world. In some cases, those people are detained, imprisoned, and extradited, with devastating consequences.
They’ve also head from the Interpol Secretary General who says the organization is doing everything it can to protect innocent people from being wrongly targeted.
You can also listen to the new Sky News podcast Dirty Work: The Misuse of Interpol Red Notices here.
Since this episode was recorded, we wish to clarify that there is currently an average of around 11,000 Red Notices published per year. In 2021, the number of red notices issued was 10,776. The total number of red notices and diffusions issued that year was 23,716. Diffusions are where a country makes the same request directly to another country.
We also wish to clarify that Interpol does have a mechanism for the suspension of member countries, which is set out in its “Rules on the Processing of Data”.
Soila Apparicio – podcast producer
Annie Joyce – senior podcast producer
Jada-Kai Meosa John – podcast promotion producer
Paul Stanworth – editor
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| 1:04.1 | putting Interpol under investigation. The International Criminal Police Organization, to give it |
| 1:09.5 | its full title, has been in existence for almost 100 years now. |
| 1:13.7 | Police forces from around the world sharing information all to hunt down criminals, for whom international borders mean precious little. |
| 1:21.5 | A new series of podcasts from Sky News is taking a close look at Interpol's Red Notice System, |
| 1:27.4 | and that's the means by which forces |
| 1:28.8 | can request their foreign counterparts detain and arrest criminals on their behalf. But our |
| 1:34.6 | investigation reveals these notices are often abused, detaining people who aren't in fact |
| 1:40.0 | criminals at all. Joining us here on the Daily, Saharzan, the podcast presenter and Heidi Pet, its producer. Lovely to have you both here in the Daily studio. And Sahar, I suppose I should come to you first. Fascinating topic. Lots of detail for us to get into in just a second. But how did you arrive upon this as a subject in the first place? Prior to coming up with this, every time I |
| 2:02.4 | had Interpol, red notice, I thought Hollywood, men in guns with their glasses chasing down |
| 2:07.9 | some of the most dangerous criminals in the world, as I suppose most people do. And the more I |
| 2:13.3 | dug into this, the more I realised the huge scale of the problem and the range of people is |
| 2:18.6 | affecting. And the scary bit was that most people don't know they're on the notice until they |
| 2:25.0 | end up arrested. You could end up on it over a business dispute. You could end up on it over |
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