European Parliament Releases Report on the Misuse of INTERPOL’s Red Notices

At the beginning of February 2019, the European Parliament released its study on the misuse of INTERPOL’s Red Notices, discussing their impact on human rights in the lights of recent developments. The significance of this problem is evidenced by statistical data. The most recently available INTERPOL Annual Report confirms that in 2017, 52,103 valid Red Notices were on the Criminal Information System, 13,048 Red Notices were issued and 6,620 of these were public. In 2016, 20,922 Notices were published by the General Secretariat (GS), including 12,878 Red Notices and recorded 26,645 Diffusions. There were 76,713 Notices, of which 47,265 were Red Notices and 85,918 Diffusions in circulation at the end of 2016. In comparison to 2010, 6,344 Red Notices were issued of a total of 10,135 notices and 13,005 Diffusions were also issued. In total, 35,318 Notices and 48,451 Diffusions were in circulation in 2010.