The 81st General Assembly took place in Rome, Italy
5-8 November 2012 - Rome, Italy
The General Assembly is INTERPOL's supreme governing body and comprises delegates appointed by the governments of member countries.
It meets once a year and takes all the major decisions affecting general policy, the resources needed for international cooperation, working methods, finances and programmes of activities. These decisions are in the form of resolutions.
This year’s INTERPOL General Assembly opened with a ministerial meeting bringing together justice, security and home affairs ministers from some 100 countries. The theme for discussion was ‘Challenges for police facing contemporary criminal violence’.
