- Ameripol
The American Police Community or Ameripol ("Comunidad de Policías de América" or "Ameripol") is a recently created continental police organization with the mission of fighting drugs.cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7094068.stm | title=Lat Am police start joint force | accessdate=2007-11-15]
Representatives of 18 countries formalized the creation of Ameripol on
14 November 2007 inBogotá ,Colombia . its presidency for the first two year term will be filled by theGeneral Director of theCarabiniers of Chile , José Alejandro Bernales Ramírez.The secretary-general will be the
Commander of theColombian National Police ,general Óscar Adolfo Naranjo until 2010. After 2010, the secretary-general will be elected for a term of three years.Its work focuses primarily on
public safety ,terrorism ,organized crime ,war crimes ,illicit drug production,drug trafficking ,weapons smuggling ,human trafficking ,money laundering ,child pornography ,white-collar crime ,computer crime , intellectualproperty crime and corruption.Member states
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Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti col3 =
Honduras Jamaica Mexico Paraguay Peru Uruguay Secretaries-general and presidents
Secretaries-general since organization's inception in 2007:
*flagicon|Colombia Óscar Adolfo Naranjo (since2007 )Presidents since organization's inception in 2007:
*flagicon|ChileJosé Bernales Ramírez (2007 -2008 )See also
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Europol , a similar Europe-wide organization.
*Interpol References
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