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Interpol:

• The International Police Organisation is commonly known as Interpol.
  
  
• It is an international organization facilitating international police cooperation against cross-border terrorism, trafficking, and other crime.
  
  
• Membership: INTERPOL has 194 member countries, making us the world's largest police organization. State of Palestine is its member.
  
  
• Governance: All decisions regarding the activities of INTERPOL are made by the General Assembly which is it’s ’s supreme governing body which meets annually.
  
  
• It is ‘NOT’ a unit or part of united nation system. It is an independent international organization.
  
  
• HQ: Lyon in France.
  
  
• Founded in: 1923.
  
  
• Each country hosts an INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), which links national police with our global network. in India, CBI is the NCB.
  
  
• Interpol notices: These are international alert/requests circulated by Interpol allowing police in member countries to share critical crime-related information. There are eight types of notices, seven of which are colour-coded by their function. An eighth Special Notice is issued at the request of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).