- India’s Home Minister has conveyed to Interpol that India would like the international police agency to expedite its process of publishing Red Notices(RNs).
- Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.
- It contains two main types of information (a)Information to identify the wanted person such as their name, date of birth etc and (b)Information related to the crime they are wanted.
- Red Notices are published by INTERPOL at the request of a member country and must comply with INTERPOL’s Constitution and Rules.A Red Notice is not an international arrest warrant.
- Interpol is the shorter and better known name of the International Criminal Police Organization.It is a network comprising 192 member nations including India.The agency was established in 1923.It is headquartered at Lyon,France.
- The Interpol basically connects police across the world even if these individual member nations do not have diplomatic relations.The Interpol facilitates information exchange, knowledge sharing and research between nations.
