Interpol will deploy a support team to Beijing before the Olympics next year to help Chinese government with security preparations, Interpol's top official told Xinhua on Monday.
The team would provide detailed information on international criminal suspects, such as names, fingerprints, photographs and DNA profiles, said Ronald K. Noble, Secretary General of Interpol.
Noble made the remarks during an International Conference on Security Cooperation for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opened in Beijing on Monday.
Noble said Interpol had designed its most ambitious passport and visa application screening process to identify stolen, lost and fraudulent travel documents as well as suspected terrorists and dangerous criminals.
"Terrorists will not use their real names, so they will use documents that were stolen or lost in order to conceal their identities," Noble said.
"Our system will permit automated screening of thousands of individuals against Interpol's global most-wanted databases at the time of their visa application, which will provide China with the most advanced early detection system of fraudulent travel documents and criminals currently available," Noble said.
He said Interpol's around-the-clock Command and Coordination Center would give the highest priority to information relevant to the security of the Games that passes through its 186 member country network of Interpol National Central Bureaus.
Noble said Interpol had also developed a web service specifically for China based on its database of 15.7 million stolen, lost or fraudulent travel documents.
(Xinhua News Agency September 11, 2007)
