Regional Bureaus Liaison Office Bangkok (LOBANG)

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Mission

The mission of the INTERPOL Liaison Office in Bangkok (LOBANG) is to facilitate, enhance and add value to international law enforcement co-operation in the Asia and South Pacific region. This is done in close partnership with all the National Central Bureaus (NCBs) in the region, as well as the INTERPOL General Secretariat, in particular, the Asia and South Pacific (ASP) sub-directorate.  

Objectives

Our key objectives are:

1. To work closely with member countries and relevant international organizations to identify prevailing, as well as emerging, transnational crime issues and threats in the Asia and South Pacific region, and to proactively initiate cross-border projects and/ or operations with relevant member countries and international organizations to mitigate these issues and threats;
   
   
2. To facilitate and promote, in close liaison and co-operation with colleagues in the INTERPOL General Secretariat, the sharing of criminal information amongst member countries in the Asia and South Pacific region; and
   
   
3. To provide support to member countries in the Asia and South Pacific region during major events, crises or disasters under the aegis of an INTERPOL Major Event Support Team (IMEST) or Incident Response Team (IRT).

Activities

Our activities centre around the following crime areas:

1. Organized crime, with focus on Asian organized crime and stolen motor vehicles;
2. Trafficking in human beings, with focus on crimes against children;
3. Terrorism;
4. Financial and high tech crime; with focus on cyber crime;
5. Drugs;
6. Wildlife crime; and
7. Intellectual property crime, with focus on counterfeit medicines.

These activities are driven by project groups who share information and facilitate communication among member countries in the region, as well as plan and execute transnational operations within the region.

Engaging regional police organizations is also an important part of our workplan. We work actively with ASEANAPOL, particularly since the signing in 2007 of a Co-operation Agreement to create an INTERPOL – ASEANAPOL Database Project. This will allow the sharing of criminal data between the Electronic ASEANAPOL Database System (e-ADS) and INTERPOL systems on a business-to-business basis. In short, ASEANAPOL e-ADS users will be able to contribute criminal information to INTERPOL and perform screening against INTERPOL databases within the e-ADS environment.

Countries served by the Liaison Office

The following countries can also be supported by LOBANG: