David Higgins, Manager of INTERPOL Environmental Crime Programme
Channel: INTERPOL
Date: 2013-07-22

In today's global economy there is a need for an international strategy to deal with this type of crime. As the only organization with a mandate to share and process criminal information globally, INTERPOL is uniquely qualified to lead these efforts.

The INTERPOL Environmental Crime Programme:

- Leads global and regional  operations to dismantle the criminal networks behind environmental crime using  intelligence-driven policing;
- Coordinates and develops international law enforcement best practice manuals, guides and other  resources;
- Provides environmental law enforcement agencies with access to our services by enhancing their links with INTERPOL National Central Bureaus;
- Works with the  Environmental Crime Committee to shape the Programme's strategy and direction.

The  INTERPOL Wildlife Crime Working Group and the  INTERPOL Pollution Crime Working Group bring together criminal investigators from around the world to share information and initiate targeted projects to tackle specific areas of environmental crime.