INTERPOL Global Complex in Singapore
to enhance and strengthen policing
worldwide
LYON, France – INTERPOL‘s Executive Committee
has unanimously endorsed plans for the creation of an INTERPOL
Global Complex in Singapore. An implementat ion plan will be
presented for approval at INTERPOL’s 79th General Assembly in Qatar
in November with full operation projected for late 2013 or early
2014.
The new global complex will
complement and support INTERPOL’s General Secretariat in Lyon,
France which will remain the organization’s world
headquarters.
“The establishment of the new state-of-the-art INTERPOL Global
Complex in Singapore will represent a win-win situation for
INTERPOL, Singapore and Asia, as well as addressing increasingly
complex crime challenges in the 21st century. This decision
reflects the need to think beyond today in order to enhance global
security for tomorrow,” said INTERPOL President Khoo
Boon Hui.
Key elements of the INTERPOL Global Complex will include:
Secretary General Ronald K. Noble welcomed the decision by
INTERPOL’s governance body to back the establishment of the new
global complex, which he described as 'an initiative that will
increase INTERPOL’s operational reach around the globe’.
“With criminals taking ever greater advantage of technology and
increasing challenges to law enforcement, this Global Complex will
allow INTERPOL and global policing to remain one step ahead of
transnational criminals by relying upon high-tech crime expertise
as well as on Singapore’s and Asia’s dynamism and their culture of
innovation,” said Secretary General Noble.
“The creation of the INTERPOL Global Complex marks a new
milestone in the history of international law enforcement and of
INTERPOL, and underscores Singapore’s commitment to international
security. The new complex will co-operate with both public and
private organizations in identifying areas for collaboration and
co-operation while delivering a wider range of services to each of
INTERPOL’s 188 member countries,” Noble concluded.
Source: Interpol Website