Interpol: A History and Examination of 70 Years of Crime Solving

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This unprecedented study of the secretive international police organisation focuses the forensic gaze on the crime-fighters themselves.Interpol's biggest enemy - and the world's No.1 crime - is drug trafficking, an industry worth, at $500 billion a year, more than the oil industry an less only than the international arms trade. 30 per cent of the organisation's effort is geared to fighting white-collar crime, with computer fraud netting an estimated 2,500 in Britain alone.Interpol's Twelve Most Wanted list currently includes notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal, fugitive American fraudster Tom Billman and Alois Brunner, the most notorious Nazi was criminal still at large.Founded in 1914 by Prince Rainer's great grandfather, Interpol now has 169 member states, ten more than the UN, coordinating its work in four offical languages (English, French, Spanish and Arabic) from a bullet-proof, state-of-the-art HQ in Lyons. Page edges yellowed.
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