Police, Interpol Hold Operation Meeting to Capture International Fugitives... "Real-Time Capture Operation"

A Total of 80 Participants from 12 Countries Attended

The National Police Agency announced on the 18th that it will hold the "Operation Meeting for the Capture of Fugitives Abroad" in Seoul in cooperation with Interpol until the 20th.

This operation meeting is part of the Asia-Pacific region fugitive capture operation (INFRA-SEAF), a joint operation between the National Police Agency of the Republic of Korea and Interpol, with over 80 police officers from 12 Interpol member countries in the Asia-Pacific region participating. The participating countries have already exchanged lists of priority targets for tracking among member countries and will attend the meeting with information on entry and exit records and whereabouts of fugitives presumed to be residing within their countries.

Each country plans to hold successive bilateral cooperation meetings to exchange pre-identified location information and additional tracking clues. The exchanged information will be immediately shared with each country's police agencies, and if the whereabouts information of a criminal is deemed specific, local police officers will be dispatched to the presumed location to conduct real-time capture activities. The Interpol General Secretariat will compile the capture and tracking status daily during the three-day meeting period, and each country intends to utilize and cooperate with the shared information to ensure continuous capture and repatriation even after the operation meeting.

The total number of major fugitives whose location intelligence will be shared among countries is 64, of which 20 fugitives who fled overseas from Korea are the largest group. Most of the fugitives being tracked by the Korean police are suspects who committed large-scale frauds such as voice phishing masterminds, followed by drug offenders and sex offenders.

An official from the National Police Agency said, "The Korean police are actively promoting joint operations with Interpol to eradicate international crime, establishing themselves as an important axis of international police cooperation," and added, "We will strive to lead the international standards of policing based on our globally recognized policing capabilities."

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