INTERPOL Databases Enhanced Access in European Union

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Stolen and lost passports are among the most valuable assets for terrorists and international criminals. In several major terrorist attacks over recent decades, the perpetrators had traveled internationally using invalid passports to conceal their identity. Lost, stolen and fake travel documents are used by fugitives to escape justice, by foreign fighters to travel to conflict zones, and by organized criminal networks to traffic vulnerable individuals and illicit commodities across borders. INTERPOL SLTD – a unique global repository, created in 2002 by INTERPOL, the world’s largest international police organization, c as a tool for law enforcement to detect and prevent the use of fraudulent identity documents. Today, the database includes more than 75 million records from 176 countries. In 2016 alone, the database was checked more than 1,59 billion times, generating more than 100,000 alerts where individuals tried to use travel documents registered as stolen or lost. The widespread and systematic use of SLTD has the potential to stop criminals and terrorist in their track and so protect global public safety. Global interchange of information on lost or stolen travel documents provides improved border integrity and helps identify identity theft either at the border or in other situation where travel documents are presented as a form of identification. The Project aims to enhance with the support and using INTERPOL policing capacities the cooperation among EU MC for fighting terrorism and transnational crime through effective border management. This project aims to prevent and detect movement of terrorist and FTFs and fight against transnational crimes through the assistance to the least performing EU Member Countries (MC) by improving their use and population of INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Document (SLTD), Travel Document Associated With Notices(TDAWN) and NOMinal databases..