Mission and vision
To be INTERPOL's regionally focused representative in support of all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is preventing, detecting and fighting international crimes. Our aim is to bring INTERPOL support closer to our regional INTERPOL members and help to increase their law enforcement contributions to the global effort against transnational crime.
Objectives of RB Nairobi
- Represent the INTERPOL General Secretariat in the region;
- Harmonize, promote and co-ordinate INTERPOL General Secretariat activities in the region;
- Harmonize, promote, strengthen and perpetuate co-operation and joint strategies for the management of all forms of cross-border and related crimes with regional implications;
- Prepare and disseminate relevant information on criminal activities and mutual assistance to the region’s member countries, to examine the training needs of member police forces;
- Identify training potential within the region for the benefit of member police forces;
- Co-ordinate training programmes;
- Monitor the implementation of, and consider for adoption, all resolutions made by EAPCCO;
- Harmonize legal provisions of the member states relating to extradition and legal mutual assistance;
- Constitute such organs and draft legal instruments;
- Carry out any such relevant and appropriate acts and strategies for purposes of promoting regional police co-operation and collaboration as regional circumstances dictate.
Activities of RB Nairobi
RB Nairobi is actively involved in addressing member countries' needs through the activities of the following priority crime desks:
- Terrorism
- Cattle rustling in the Eastern Africa Region
- Environmental crime
- Maritime piracy off the Somali coast
- Trafficking in human beings and illegal migration
- Trafficking of narcotics
- Financial and hi-tech crime
- Trafficking of firearms
- Fugitives tracking
EAPCCO Related activities
RB Nairobi, as the permanent Secretariat of the East African Police Chiefs Committee, carries out activities for the regional police body in the following areas:
- Conferences and meetings
Initiates, co-ordinates and organizes the ordinary and extraordinary meetings of the Ministers responsible for police matters, police chiefs, operational police units, task forces and working groups on crime matters.
- Training
Initiates, co-ordinates and facilitates all the training activities to meet the member countries' needs in co-ordination with the INTERPOL General Secretariat and the EAPCCO Training Sub-committee.
- Legal Matters
Addresses legal matters in relation to police co-operation in the region in co-ordination with the EAPCCO legal Sub-committee.
Countries served by the Regional Bureau are
- Burundi
- Djibouti
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Rwanda
- Seychelles
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Comoros (is not an EAPCCO member)
