Hong Kong will welcome the Interpol General Assembly: seven key seats will be replaced and overseas wanted disputes will enter the global police landscape

An annual conference on international police cooperation will be held when the overseas wanted dispute over the NEC law is not withdrawn. The 94th plenary meeting of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) will be held at the Hong Kong Convention Exhibition Centre from 30 November to 3 December

1. On September 29, Voice of America reported that two British lawyers, Ben Keith and Rhys Davies, who had been acting on behalf of Red Notices and in relation to the transnational repression, had expressed concern about this; They were concerned not only with the host city, but also with the institutional power represented by the full re-election of seven seats on the Interpol Archives Control Committee (CCF) during the General Assembly.

A congress. Why watch the Archives Control Committee?

In the imagination of ordinary people, INTERPOL means the pursuit of transnational fraud, human trafficking and other major criminals. However, the network also has police data that affect the movement of individuals across borders. The Archives Control Board hears individual requests for access to, modification and deletion of records of interest to the individual. When a State requests red notices and the person claims to have been politically pursued, the independence of the Commission becomes the key remedy mechanism.

Article 3 of the INTERPOL Constitution prohibits the organization of activities of a political, military, religious or ethnic nature. It is not a decorative principle, but rather a system border that preserves global criminal police cooperation from internal political struggles in member States.

The offshore Hong Kong people are wanted for the actual meeting

Voice of America quoted the British Government ' s six-monthly report from Hong Kong that, by the end of 2025, the Hong Kong Police had issued wanted warrants for 34 persons abroad on national security charges, with a Hong Kong dollar reward in some cases. The British Government criticized measures to intimidate persons who legitimately exercise their freedom of expression in the United Kingdom; The Government of Hong Kong, for its part, stated that its actions against suspected offenders were in accordance with the law and claimed the rights guaranteed by the National Security Act.

This controversy has given the General Assembly a public significance beyond protocol and conference services: If an individual makes political opinions in one place and a criminal label is used in another to pursue cross-border pursuits, what body should the international police database be, and on what criteria should it be, to decide whether to intervene? The red circular is not an international arrest warrant, but it can have a real impact on travel, financial and reputational aspects by entering national databases.

On 23 September, a large-scale convention exercise was conducted in Hong Kong

On 24 September, the HKSAR Government issued a press release stating that the Police, in conjunction with the Fire Service, the HA, etc., conducted cross-sectoral exercises at the Convention Fair, Victoria Port and West Kowloon to mobilize some 3,000 people, and simulated the Conference movement of people and security emergencies. The official preparatory document also revealed that a preparatory steering committee for the Congress had been established at the central level, while a three-tier coordination structure, led by the Chief Secretary for Administration, had been established in Hong Kong. This means that the Conference has become not only the annual activity of Interpol itself, but also a major police diplomatic forum organized by Hong Kong in conjunction with the central authorities.

What questions were raised by two lawyers

-Ben Keith: Proceeding from the case of long-standing contacts, China is concerned that the hosting of the General Assembly will be used to improve its reputation within Interpol.

• Ris Davis: Note that cases arising from political disputes may arise in the course of Interpol proceedings on ordinary criminal charges such as fraud, corruption, etc.

-The Interpol institutional response: Red notices must be reviewed by a specialized working group, published data can still be verified by the relevant procedures and the parties can apply to the CFC for processing.

Who protects people who are wrongly targeted when a country's communication enters the global police system? This was a matter of concern for the CCF ' s re-election, as a result of a joint question raised by the lawyers interviewed on 29 September.

The meeting was held in Hong Kong, but the test was in the database

International police cooperation has a specific role to play in transnational crime investigations, but its continued credibility depends on the effective review and relief of cases of political controversy after they have entered the police collaboration. For those in Hong Kong who are wanted for a reward, it is not personal that the conference is being held in such a large manner; What he needed most was to know whether his name and case record were trans-border and how wrong records were corrected.

From the Hong Kong Police preparatory exercise to the seven-seat CRF session at the end of November, the conference was worth following up on not the reception ceremony but rather the institutional choice to translate into a practical decision in the global police network.