Transcripts For DW DocFilm - Interpol - Who Controls The Wor

DW DocFilm - Interpol - Who Controls The World Police July 17, 2018

Prostitution organ trafficking drugs cigarettes toxic Waste Pharmaceuticals weapons not to mention corruption. Tax evasion Money Laundering terrorism it liberalization of our economy means crime is going Truly International and the digital revolution has brought us cyber crime. To tackle all these forms of crime and International Organization was founded to bring together and coordinate police from all five continents interpol. The First International criminal Police Conference was held in my. In one nine hundred fourteen twenty four countries laid down the founding principles of International Police cooperation the concept of. More than one hundred years later its a respected organization but what do we really know about it. Interpols mission is to coordinate the exchange of information among the Police Forces of its one hundred ninety two member countries but with so many different states involved some more democratic than others and often with differing interests and International Police organization can be hard to coordinate. In a. Budget is also far too low to accomplish the tests it has set for itself. In twenty eleven it decided to begin entering into financial partnerships with various multinationals institutions and governments. And that raises the question of how those funds are used can an International Organization truly remain impartial and avoid conflicts of interest if it depends on the. Partners. Mrs ward. I think we all agree that. Extremely important for us security. When the interpol system is abused by undemocratic regimes to silence and persecute. And human rights defenders. To prevent such abuse procedures. So is interpol being manipulated and has there been abuse. The European Parliament has entered the debate about red notices which are alerts issued by interpol this came after. A german writer of turkish descent was arrested by Spanish Police in august twenty seventeen his arrest resulted from an interpol red notice requested by turkey. Is known mainly for his views on the Armenian Genocide and the issue of kurdish rights. Connecting police for safer world thats interpols motto their red notices are at the core of the organizations work and its efforts to combat crime. But theyve also brought interpol notoriety. When a country has individuals who belong to either terrorist or criminal organizations enough to provide us with their identity photos fingerprints etc so from the moment the notice is issued its seen by some one hundred ninety member countries and that means that individual can be picked up in a routine check anywhere in the world. Notices are one of interpols key tools in fighting International Crime they come in eight different colors but the red ones are the best known. When a member country reports a criminal an offense and escape a threat interpol issues a red notice. Its an alert that can set a worldwide manhunt in motion. Red notices are a tried and tested tool but their numbers increased five fold in the span of just ten years. There were some twenty three hundred in two thousand and five and nearly thirteen thousand in two thousand and sixteen. But that. Also has a side effect. From effect on the last year we issued about ten thousand requests right notices wanted notices one to two percent of them were disputed. That one to two percent represents tens or even hundreds of red notices but article three of interpols constitution referred to as the neutrality clause stipulates it is strictly forbidden for the organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political military religious or racial character. Sanctioning those who abuse red notices might be a solution but interpol is permanently underfunded. Its the second largest International Organization after the United Nations but its budget nowhere near matches its reputation. The combined statutory contributions of all one hundred ninety two member countries come to hardly more than fifty Million Euros by comparison the f. B. I. s budget is some seven billion euros sixty times more. So right now in opposing the budget deficit weve reduced our operating budget weve reduced our travel budget and weve frozen new highs essentially since ive joined weve had three people. Here construct who was elected interpols secretarygeneral in late two thousand and fourteen was supposed to enforce this new austerity regime. A daunting task even more so because his predecessor ronald noble had sought to make interpol on the present and indispensable with a budget to match. Gaining your trust the trust of my staff and acting in the best interest of the organization have been my number one priority as your secretary general. Noble spent fourteen years that they headed into. The arrived in leone in france in late two thousand with an Ambitious Program in mind me. Voted. Then came september eleventh two thousand and one. Noble had been director of interpol in leo for less than a year. To come alive and. No one call no one called us for assistance from congress will notice the priest person comes out of her home out of my. Office of. Operational helped us Exchange Information and decided that the lights were never going to turn off and must remember that interpols vision is to connect police for safer world over the next ten years noble overhauled interpols mission its Communication System and its Law Enforcement operations from the ground up. These changes were expensive noble increased interpol staff from three hundred eighty to eight hundred but his budget didnt increase to match the secretary general set a new plan in motion to obtain the financing he needed for his ambitious plans. This use global overall strawman count of chronic to believe theres a massive tosh and you give it fifty Million Euros to write globally on government you ought to be a shine to them. In october two thousand and eight interpols seventy seven the General Assembly was held in St Petersburg in his opening speech ronald noble directed an appeal to then Prime Minister vladimir putin. Mr Prime Minister i beseech you personally and all heads of state and government of interpols one hundred eighty seven member countries to act swiftly and decisively in supporting interpols Global Security initiative for the twenty First Century and the creation of a billion euro fund to support interpols efforts. A billion euros that was fifty. Times his budget. Current but huge. Seventy Million Euros go to some a lot isnt you said to me you remember a billion you said it was over for are you prepared to say now youre still one two billion i still want to billion i still believe it should be a boy and i believe its easy to defend whos stopping you getting a billion or member countries our member countries are prepared to spend billions and tens of billions and billions of dollars in war in other ways to try to make the world safer and not spend a fraction of that to try to prevent crime. In two thousand and ten ronald noble was reelected by an overwhelming majority for a third term as head of interpol he knew it would be his last term and he said everything in motion to obtain the billion euro budget he had long been calling for. One filing that many use of trucking he then moved logically into private Public Partnerships from alternative method of achieving the sorts of funding budget that the ball needed. To make private partnerships or p p ps were in fashion they were strongly encouraged by both the world bank and the European Investment bank. Between two thousand and ten and twenty fifteen the contributions of member countries to the regular budget increased by just six point five percent private investment was climbing to dizzying heights increasing by as much as seven hundred fifty percent. Of. The us this is what kind of organizations with a associating with what was the purpose of that organization or association. Events or how can we ensure their work is completely independently and without any cronyism of the pipes. One year into the beginning of these private partnerships concerns about potential conflicts of interest were brewing. From germanys point of view cooperation with the private sector has always been a particularly sensitive point. You have to make sure its not the money thats choosing the projects but rob of the projects that determine what farms are needed. To mistrust had its roots in an Early Partnership signed in two thousand and eleven with fee for the International Federation of football association. Chris eaton was the key player in this project the Australian Police officer had risen in interpols ranks to become head of its command and Coordination Center a vital part of the organisation. It was a prestigious position but he left it to become head of security at fifa his mission now was to investigate the growing problem of match fixing games and victims who fished to understand how all this happened you have to go back to twenty ten twenty eleven to the time when what they call match fixing match was starting to become a major problem if fans couldnt be sure anymore if it was a real match football would lose all its meaning no one would go to the stadiums anymore. And thats why everyone suddenly wanted to sort out this problem. This was especially true if effect which receives the lions share of its revenues from t. V. Broadcasting rights for a fee for match fixing results in fewer fans attending football matches fewer Television Viewers and less income. At the twenty ten world cup in south africa three for her and almost a billion euros in two thousand and fourteen in brazil more than three billion. Dollars negotiating with the wrong. And with the drive to have free for invest into paul because it was clear to me that new to the polish import as to might be any major fiction vision if its more a more effective. One may ninth twenty eleven chris eaton welcomed ronald noble at the first headquarters to celebrate the partnership between interpol and the most popular sport in the world. With a cash infusion of twenty Million Euros over ten years. At the time everyone was surprised i myself thought interpols interval had never really interested me. And it happened at the very moment president blast to and feet were being attacked from all sides of the stand in a Partnership Google that holding on to their capital. But i dont think it was. Six months earlier fifa had made some surprising decisions on the bids to host the twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two world cup. Full. Combat i think. This was six months before interpol signed its Partnership Deal with. Why would an International Police Organization Ally itself with an association that was under deep suspicion. First. The secretary of. The deal was signed just three weeks before the sixty first fifa congress. Would be seeking a fourth term as fee for president. As a desert site of course appearing in public with the secretary general of any. Paul at that particular moment was a gift from the gods. That led to i think its going to be good i think thats a little bit too but i think the piece will do let. Me give. You something. Because. Seven ledger was reelected over the next months and years the scandals that fifo would continue unabated. For sept leisure the partnership provided an air of integrity and secured his reelection interpol gained twenty Million Euros to fight match fixing and help preserve features lucrative broadcast deals and. Has a presentation of the contract with ron noble blood test said this wonderful sentence that i find very revealing. All who knows this might become the Intelligence Wing afifa. Ron noble the future intelligence chief was sitting right beside him and said nothing. Much. Speculation was rife it appeared that an International Police organization had gotten into bed with. In another private partnership Philip Morris international contributed fifteen Million Euros in two thousand and twelve to fight cigarette smuggling what motivated the joint tobacco manufacturer tobacco trafficking cut into its profits anough so that it put out major ad campaigns attacking it. Back oh traffickers are the Third Largest global cigarette suppliers trading around six hundred billion illegal cigarettes. This means that legal manufacturers and retailers are losing sales while governments and taxpayers are being robbed forty to fifty billion dollars in money they could be funding important Public Services and helping local communities. By working together Legal Industry Law Enforcement government sensible society. Staff feel closer. To gather we can stop illegal cigarettes. If Philip Morris was to be believed stamping out cigarette smuggling could do wonderful things for our communities and our children. So why then did the World Health Organization see red when this partnership was announced to the point of refusing interpol observer status at their conference on tobacco control. Over the course of the last fifteen years the Tobacco Industry has managed to convince governments around the World International agencies like interpol even though last attention like that rather than being as pariahs supplier and the product actually its a victim of the illicit macca trade and part of the solution but nothing could be further from the truth interpol how could it in our poll and it secretary general have signed an agreement with Philip Morris knowing that going back to nine hundred eighty nine there are eighty million documents that testify to all the misdeeds of the Tobacco Industry we believe they show that the industry hasnt respected the law and that it has knowingly collaborated with criminal organizations is known for us that raises many questions as well as in the course of halakhah. The partnership between interpol and the Tobacco Industry certainly was eyebrow raising. The Tobacco Industry stood accused of participating in cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting over decades in collaboration with the italian and the balkan mafia. In two thousand and four Philip Morris international agreed to pay one point two five billion dollars to the e. U. In return for avoiding further litigation. But why would the Tobacco Industry promote smuggling of their own products. Festival cigarettes smuggled away way cheaper because they have no taxes on them. The cheaper they are the more they sell and in particular the more they sell to young people and the Tobacco Industrys documents also make clear that they understand that its really important to have cheap cigarettes available for young people because otherwise they wouldnt take up this deadly habit. In total Philip Morris international and three other tobacco giants agreed to pay the European Union more than two billion euros. Under this agreement the European Anti Fraud Office or all of the e. U. In the Tobacco Industry would join forces in the battle against cigarette smuggling. But when it comes to cigarette smuggling there are three categories counterfeit cigarettes often of poor quality contraband real but stolen are untaxed. And cheap white also known as illicit whites which is cigarettes produced legally in one country to be sold on the black market in another. So what type of trafficking was the agreement between interpol and Philip Morris international really aimed at. This deal is really just about addressing counterfeit and counterfeit it is just one element of the illicit cigarette trade and its the smallest element is a far bigger problem with the Tobacco Companies products and being up in the illicit market theyre putting money into and so into coke can speak about the illicit tobacco trade and represent issues on the u. S. Its talked about a trait that the Tobacco Companies want to see represented. In the back away industry had secured substantial control of the fight against cigarette smoking. And illegal trade that damage their profits purely out of economic interest. Every partnership involves some

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