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Stephen Kavanagh for INTERPOL Secretary General 2024: Innovation, Impact, Integrity and Inclusivity
responsive to our member countries’
voices. This has been a guiding
principle of mine throughout my work
at INTERPOL. As Executive Director
of Police Services, I am committed to
INTERPOL-AFRIPOL collaboration. This
has included, for example, counterterrorism operations; implementing the
West African Police Information System
(WAPIS) for member states; and heading
up the Africa Cyber Surge Operation to
provide operational support to Nigeria
and impacted countries to address Black
Axe criminal activity, which included
the emergency mission to support
Nigerian police officials and led to the
arrest of eleven high profile suspects.
INTERPOL’s work must also have impact
on environmental and climate crimes—
now the third most lucrative criminal
enterprise globally. As Chair for the specialist
conference on wildlife crime, I am passionate
about the need to use INTERPOL’s data,
partnerships and mandate to make more
headway in this arena. The survival of our
planet—our oceans, our forests, and some
of the most vulnerable communities across
the world—depends on this action.
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Integrity
A strong INTERPOL must be a beacon of
policing values and have integrity bound to
its core. Law enforcement worldwide needs
to trust it can turn to a responsible, robust,
respected and respectful INTERPOL. I have
demonstrated my commitment to integrity
by engaging and supporting both the work
of INTERPOL’s Notices and Diffusions Task
Force and Corrective Measures Team. I
am proud of my leadership of UK public
enquiries and strategies for anti-corruption
and data protection innovations across
my career. I will ensure that INTERPOL
places the innocent and the vulnerable
at the heart of its activities, and I will
uphold and strengthen its commitments
to efficiency, transparency and neutrality.
Integrity is not just about individual action, it
also means a committed, well-functioning
and undivided organisation. Under my
leadership, INTERPOL would create a “Global
Responsibility Model”; using its voice as the
world’s trusted law enforcement partner, to
bring governments, the private sector, NGOs,
academia, and law enforcement together to
develop a global public safety infrastructure.
This funding model is strategic, practical