Inspector Paul Barker of the Royal Gibraltar Police who heads the local INTERPOL office, recently virtually attended INTERPOL’s Head of National Central Bureau’s Conference.

A statement from the RGP follows below:

It cannot be easy to plan a conference for 300 delegates from 167 countries and with  every spoken contribution being translated simultaneously into English, French,  Spanish and Arabic.  

That was the challenge facing the organisers of the INTERPOL National Central  Bureaus (NCBs) whose annual conference is normally held in Lyon, France.  

Because of the pandemic, this year’s conference is being held online and being  attended ‘virtually’ by Inspector Paul Barker of the Royal Gibraltar Police who heads  the local INTERPOL office. 

The 3-day conference brings together the leadership of NCBs to examine matters  related to cooperation among police forces from around the world. This cooperation  may be between NCBs themselves or with INTERPOL’s General Secretariat on operational issues, exchange of best practices and may provide updates about  INTERPOL policing capabilities. 

The conference was opened by Interpol’s President Kim Jong Yang of Korea and its Secretary General, Jürgen Stock from Germany. 

He said, ‘Having direct access to INTERPOL is of immense value to the RGP and the wider law enforcement community in Gibraltar.   We cooperate with other member countries sharing criminal intelligence through INTERPOL, in order to combat transnational crime wherever it may occur’