Interpol will deploy a support team to Beijing before the Olympics next year to help Chinese
government with security preparations, Interpol's top official told
Xinhua on Monday.
The team would provide detailed information on international
criminal suspects, such as names, fingerprints, photographs and DNA
profiles, said Ronald K. Noble, Secretary General of Interpol.
Noble made the remarks during an International Conference on
Security Cooperation for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opened in
Beijing on Monday.
Noble said Interpol had designed its most ambitious passport and
visa application screening process to identify stolen, lost and
fraudulent travel documents as well as suspected terrorists and
dangerous criminals.
"Terrorists will not use their real names, so they will use
documents that were stolen or lost in order to conceal their
identities," Noble said.
"Our system will permit automated screening of thousands of
individuals against Interpol's global most-wanted databases at the
time of their visa application, which will provide China with the
most advanced early detection system of fraudulent travel documents
and criminals currently available," Noble said.
He said Interpol's around-the-clock Command and Coordination
Center would give the highest priority to information relevant to
the security of the Games that passes through its 186 member
country network of Interpol National Central Bureaus.
Noble said Interpol had also developed a web service
specifically for China based on its database of 15.7 million
stolen, lost or fraudulent travel documents.
(Xinhua News Agency September 11, 2007)