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INTERPOL : red notices

"Red Notices issued by INTERPOL facilitate the provisional arrest of internationally wanted individuals as part of pre-extradition procedures. Although it seems in general that INTERPOL must depend on its member countries for a Red Notice request being legitimate and that its chief role in verification of a request is to make sure that all the required sets of information have been provided, there are certain mechanisms through which it may further assess a request's legitimacy. For example, before publishing a notice to the National Central Bureaus (law enforcement contact points in each country) concerned, INTERPOL's General Secretariat will consider the necessity and advisability of such action; it must also ensure that the conditions attached to a given type of notice (e.g., for a Red Notice, issuance of an arrest warrant or court decision) have been met. Moreover, INTERPOL may not undertake 'any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character'"--Executive summary, page [1]

eBook, English, 2010
The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Center, [Washington, D.C.], 2010