About INTERPOL Red Notice:
- A Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.
- It is based on an arrest warrant or court order issued by the judicial authorities in the requesting country.
- Red Notices are issued for fugitives wanted either for prosecution or to serve a sentence in relation to serious ordinary law crimes such as murder, rape and fraud.
- Member countries apply their own laws in deciding whether to arrest a person.
- Purpose: International alert for a wanted person, but it is not an arrest warrant.
- It contains two main types of information:
- Information to identify the wanted person, such as their name, date of birth, nationality, hair and eye colour, photographs and fingerprints if available.
- Information related to the crime they are wanted for, which can typically be murder, rape, child abuse or armed robbery.
- Issuance: Red Notices are published by INTERPOL at the request of a member country, and must comply with INTERPOL’s Constitution and Rules.
- Interpol cannot compel the law enforcements authorities in any of the countries to arrest someone who has a RN issued.
- The Central Bureau of Investigation is India's National Central Bureau (NCB) for INTERPOL, handling Red Notices for all crimes, including wildlife offenses.
