Interpol is the name of the international criminal police organization. The word Interpol comes from two words: International and Police' and stands for the International Criminal Police Commission. Interpol is strictly a non -political, non-religious, non-racial organization in which the police forces of more than one hundred different nations co-operate with one another. Its headquarters is situated in Paris.The job of Interpol is to trace out criminals. According to international law the police of one country cannot enter the territory of another country to catch a criminal who, after committing a crime, has escaped to that country. Interpol helps in such situations to trace out the criminals. Every country has its representative in Interpol. After the First World War, crimes increased considerably in Europe, specially in Austria. After committing crimes, criminals used to go to some neighbouring countries and hide themselves there. In order to arrest such criminals, Johan Scober, the then police chief of Vienna, called a meetting of the Police officials of different countries in 1923 . It was in this meetting that twenty countries jointly established Interpol. Its first head office was made in Vienna and Johan became its first president. In 1938, Germany invaded and with this came the end of Interpol. During the Second World War Interpol remained inactive. After this war, Flaurent Lovagay, Inspector General of Belgium police revived it. Due to the absence of necessary facilities in Belgium, the head office of interpol could not be established there. paris became its new head office. By 1955 fifty five countries became members of Interpol. In 1956, Interpol was given a new constitution.
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