Interpol v voprosakh i otvetakh
By: V.S. Ovchinskiĭ
Publisher: Infra-M
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Moskva
Language: rus
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Police; International police; International Criminal Police Organization
Description: Presented in question-and-answer format, a description of the historical, legal, and organizational aspects of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) and its National Central Bureau in the Russian Federation.  The author, V. S. Ovchinskii, headed the Russian -bureau between October 1997 and July 1999.  Chapter headings are:1. Brief history of Interpol  2. Legal and organizational foundations for the activity of Interpol today  3. Legal and organizational foundations for the activity of the National Central Bureau of Interpol in the Russian Federation  4. Functions of Interpol in international tracking and extradition of criminals  5. Organizing international tracking along Interpol lines in the Russian Federation  6. Role of Interpol in executing international investigation assignments  7. Identification of persons through Interpol  8. Interpol in the fight against organized and economic crime  9. Interpol in the fight against international terrorist activity and arms trafficking   10. Interpol in the fight against drug trafficking  11. Interpol in the fight against trafficking in stolen objects of special historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural value  12. Interpol in the fight against counterfeiting and document forgery  13. Interpol in the fight against high-tech crime  14. Interpol in the fight against crimes involving motor vehicles  Interpol in the 21st century (in lieu of a conclusion)  More than half the volume consists of appendices, e.g., Interpol mission statements, decrees, decisions, reports, forms.