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INTERPOL Silver Notice
- 29 May 2025
- 2 min read
India has successfully leveraged INTERPOL's newly introduced Silver Notice system to trace assets and seek international cooperation in tracking down economic fugitives.
- INTERPOL Silver Notice: Launched in 2025, it helps trace and recover criminal assets, combat transnational organized crime, and enhance international police cooperation.
- It is currently in a pilot phase involving 51 countries, which will run until November 2025. During this period, each country can request up to nine Silver Notices.
- In India, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) acts as India’s nodal agency for Interpol-related matters. It coordinates requests from all Indian law enforcement agencies seeking Interpol’s international assistance.
- BHARATPOL, developed by the CBI, gives both central and state agencies real-time access to INTERPOL data. It streamlines cooperation against transnational crimes like cybercrime and trafficking, and simplifies Red Notice processing.
- Interpol’s Colour-coded Notices System: INTERPOL notices are requests for cooperation or alerts shared among police in 196 member countries.
- Interpol issues nine colour-coded notices for various purposes; it is issued by INTERPOL’s General Secretariat on request from a country’s National Central Bureau (NCB).
- It can also be issued at the request of International Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Court to seek persons wanted for committing crimes within their jurisdiction, notably genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
- They may also be issued on behalf of the UN Security Council to enforce its sanctions.
| Read more: Notices of Interpol |
