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Originally Posted by WarChild
Just FYI, INTERPOL doesn't actually "chase" anybody down. They don't have a jail, or officers out making busts or anything like that. It's essentially just an administrative organization facilitating cooperation amongst the member states police agencies.  |
That is not totally accurate. They have agents who run people down but leave the arresting to the local law enforcement. But you are correct, they don't have a jail. Instead they deport people to their home country. They have an INTERPOL office here in Thailand, complete with agents who are running people down on behalf of governments of the citizens who have had warrants issued for them. However, once found, it is the Thai police who arrest them, but INTERPOL does all the footwork and is right there during the arrest. They just don't physically do it themselves.
Example, you live in some island in the Caribbean. You are a citizen of Scotland and they issue an arrest warrant for you. They give that to INTERPOL who tracks you down with the help of the local island police, and the local police arrest you, turn you over to INTERPOL who then deports you back to Scotland. They can also issue their own arrest warrants.
INTERPOL could very well be used to hunt pirates if arrest warrants were issued for them. And the warrant doesn't necessarily have to come from their home country.
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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
That is correct. It is not like people see in the movies.
Additionally, Interpol does not get involved unless your local/state/fed law enforcement make a request directly to them. You have to submit a report there, and if you're lucky... your county has someone who deals with internet bullshit. If not, you will just get bounced around until you have to write the state attorney general, and then they assign it to the state police or ICE. That is the FBI division that deals with computer crimes.
Sadly I know all of this because I've had to go through all of these steps, and agencies, because of some of the psychotics who frequent GFY and think their internet gangster crap has no limits.
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See post above. However, you are correct in the fact that they do not operate totally on on their own. They do have their own wanted list that they hunt, but they usually act on behalf of the country the criminal is from.
I get to see them in action all the time. They are assisting the Thais to arrest people left and right here. Pattaya is a notorious haven for criminals on the run.
INTERPOL is getting deeper into cybercrime and digital security starting in 2014. No telling where that is going to lead, but my guess is they wouldn't be getting involved with the internet unless they have been given some power on an international level to do so.
From INTERPOL's website:
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"The abuse of communication technologies such as the Internet are often complex and global in nature and require an equally complex and global response."
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I know Damian will still refuse to believe that anyone can operate with a global response, HOW ABOUT WE NOT SAY THESE THINGS