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Interpol to set up centralized information program in West Africa

Xinhua, August 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) is poised to set up a new centralized program of police and criminal related information in West Africa, said an official release on Wednesday.

According to the release issued by the cabinet of the Prime Minister, a delegation of Interpol presented the program to Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba on Tuesday in Ouagadougou.

"The project is to gather police information from all police and gendarmerie forces of a country and then aggregate them into a computerized central data base," Interpol special representative to the European Union, Pierre Reuland, said after meeting the prime minister.

Reuland said the project will help create a platform likely to enable information sharing between the 15 member-states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and a better reaction organization to all kinds of criminality in the sub-region.

He went on to explain that different national databases will be made compatible with Interpol system and be instantly shared with the wider world.

This will enable easy apprehension of suspicious and malevolent persons, as the West African sub-region is facing increasing insecurity with a wave of terrorist attacks and abuses perpetrated by Boko Haram. Endit