OUR MISSION

The Interpol-U.S. National Central Bureau (USNCB), a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, serves as the United States’ representative to INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization. The USNCB is the central point of contact for all INTERPOL matters in the United States, including secure communications with police authorities in INTERPOL’s 187 member countries and access to INTERPOL’s various databases containing information on wanted persons, terrorists, missing persons, stolen and lost passports and travel documents, stolen vehicles, and other law enforcement information. On a daily basis, the USNCB coordinates and transmits requests for criminal investigative and humanitarian assistance between American federal, state and local law enforcement authorities and their foreign counterparts.

RECENT NEWS

Photo of Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble, Director of Interpol USNCB Tim Williams, and Attorney General Eric Holder

INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble, Director of INTERPOL-United States National Central Bureau (USNCB) Tim Williams, and Attorney General Eric Holder after Director Williams swearing in Nov. 13, 2009, in the Department of Justice's Great Hall. Through the use of INTERPOL’s secure communications network, criminal databases and other resources, the USNCB continues to advance its mission to respond to requests for assistance from other federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies within the United States, and from authorities in INTERPOL’s 188-member countries.

  • INTERPOL DNA match nabs serial rapist WASHINGTON

    International partnerships between National Central Bureaus located in Washington and Vienna, Austria, including INTERPOL’s DNA unit in Lyon, exchanged critical information that led to an arrest of an Afghan national suspected of serial rape on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, in Austria.

  • Executive Order 12425
    Expanding INTERPOL's privileges and immunities in the United States

    On December 16, 2009, the President signed an Executive Order expanding INTERPOL’s privileges and immunities in the United States. The President’s order amends a 1983 Executive Order signed by President Reagan that designated INTERPOL as a public international organization in the United States pursuant to the International Organizations Immunities Act. INTERPOL is one of over 80 international organizations so designated.
  • The White House
    Executive Order - Amending Executive Order 12425

    Amending Executive Order 12425 designating INTERPOL as a public international organization entitled to enjoy certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities.

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