21 March 2010
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'Migrants who cannot deliver the smuggling fee upon arrival are detained. Males have their fingers chopped off and mailed to relatives, females are being raped while their families back in China are on the phone, so that the family would come up with the money in a hurry.' This foreword was the guideline for INTERPOL General Secretariat indicating and verifying the involvement of organized crime in smuggling and trafficking of persons. In June 1999 INTERPOL, upon member states request, initiated Operation Bridge to facilitate a more effective and efficient program for the collection of information on organized crime groups and associations involved in alien smuggling, for improving combat against this form of crime and for undertaking adequate measures on the prevention and investigation levels. Operation Bridge is dealing with the organized crime involvement in people smuggling. INTERPOL is advising all member states and their law enforcement agencies to participate in the project. If you would like to have access to the restricted Operation Bridge website, please send us your exact details (name, law enforcement agency, member state, address and telephone number) via your respective National Central Bureau to the following e-mail address:
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