Regional activities
Regional Conferences

Africa 20th African Regional Conference 07-09 July 2009, Cairo, Egypt      Previous conferences 19th African Regional Conference 11-13 July 2007, Arusha, Tanzania 18th African Regional Conference 13-15 July 2005, Accra, Ghana 17th African Regional Conference 23-25 July 2003, Lusaka, Zambia 16th African Regional Conference 2-4 July 2001, Gaborone, Botswana African Regional Conference Retrospective

Americas 20th Americas Regional Conference 01-03 April 2009, Viña del Mar, Chile      Previous conferences 19th Americas Regional Conference 25-27 September 2007, Bogota, Colombia 18th Americas Regional Conference 21-23 June 2005, Lima, Peru 17th Americas Regional Conference 10-12 April 2002, Mexico City, Mexico

Asia 20th Asian Regional Conference 5-7 March 2008, Hong Kong, China      Previous conferences 19th Asian Regional Conference 11-13 April 2006, Jakarta, Indonesia 18th Asian Regional Conference 16-17 March 2004, Manila, Philippines 17th Asian Regional Conference 18-22 February 2002, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Europe 38th European Regional Conference 27 to 29 May 2009, Republic of San Marino      Previous conferences 37th European Regional Conference 28 to 30 May 2008, Vilnius, Lithuania 36th European Regional Conference Varna, Bulgaria, 30 May to 1 June 2007 Extraordinary session of the ICPO-Interpol European Regional Conference Lyon, 7 June 2006 35th European Regional Conference Minsk, Belarus, 17-18 May 2006 34th European Regional Conference 25-27 May 2005, Nicosia, Cyprus 33rd European Regional Conference 12-14 May 2004, Kiev, Ukraine 32nd European Regional Conference 14-15 and 16 May 2003, Netherlands 31st European Regional Conference 5-7 June 2002, Tallinn 30th European Regional Conference 16-18 May 2001, Tbilisi 29th European Regional Conference 17-19 May 2000, Reykjavik, Island

Regional conferences bring together National Central Bureaus (NCBs) in each of Interpol’s four statutory regions to discuss global and regional policing issues. The conferences are effectively committees of the General Assembly and are therefore statutory meetings.

The European Regional Conference is held once a year and the conferences in Africa, the Americas and Asia are held once every two years.

The members of each conference are the National Central Bureaus of member countries in that region. NCB representatives from countries outside the region and those from regional law enforcement or other organizations may attend as observers.

The objectives of the regional conferences are to identify specific problems of criminality which transcend national boundaries in that region, and to recommend action or solutions which can be only be achieved by acting at institutional level rather than by an individual country. These problems may be of an operational, strategic or policy nature.

The Regional conferences do not have any constitutional power to adopt resolutions, but forward recommendations to the General Secretariat in Lyon, which then passes them onto the Executive Committee or General Assembly, where appropriate.