Support for Taiwan’s Participation in INTERPOL as an Observer: An Indispensable Member for International Security

Support for Taiwan’s participation in INTERPOL as an observer: An indispensable member for international security

By Director General, Charles Chi-Yu Chou INTERPOL is the world’s most essential institution for multilateral police cooperation. With 196 member states, it plays a key platform for law enforcement agencies to share intelligence, access criminal databases, and respond to emerging threats in real time. It ultimately seeks to protect the public by making sure police worldwide can work shoulder to shoulder. Despite this idealistic mandate, Taiwan ha…

Interpol versus the gangs

Good morning and welcome to yesterday's newsletter. It is not usual to see officers from Interpol, the international police cooperation agency, on Mozambican streets checking vehicles alongside Mozambican police (see below). And to do so on the streets of the cities of Nampula and Nacala is a bold move. Nampula province has a well-deserved reputation as Mozambique’s crime hotspot. This operation, which is being supported by the provincial author…