ICPO-Interpol - General Assembly 68th Session - Seoul - 8th-12th November 1999

NOTING THE CONTENTS of Report AGN/68/RAP/3 containing the proposed model police co-operation agreement,

ENDORSING the comments expressed in that Report on the need for a model police co-operation agreement to help member countries wishing to develop their police co-operation capabilities,

DEEMING it appropriate that police co-operation agreements should be integral parts of the co-operation system set up by Interpol and that they should assign a central role to the National Central Bureaus,

The ICPO-Interpol General Assembly, meeting in Seoul from 8th to 12th November 1999 at its 68th session:

APPROVES the model police co-operation agreement as it appears at Appendix 2 of Report AGN/68/RAP/3;

ENCOURAGES NCBs to promote the model agreement vis-à-vis their competent national authorities;

RECOMMENDS that NCBs take the necessary steps to fulfil the role the model agreement assigns to them for the purposes of its implementation;

RECOMMENDS that NCBs notify the General Secretariat of any agreement concluded on the basis of the model;

ASKS the General Secretariat to promote the model police co-operation agreement as widely as possible, particularly vis-à-vis the government authorities of Interpol member countries;

ASKS the General Secretariat to periodically assess the scope of the model agreement and, if necessary, revise it and send the revised version to the NCBs and the competent government authorities.

Adopted.