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Meet the man behind INTERPOL: Ronald Kenneth Noble, INTERPOL Secretary General
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Ronald K. Noble was elected Secretary General by the 69th INTERPOL General Assembly in Rhodes, Greece, in 2000, and was unanimously reelected to a second five-year term by the 74th INTERPOL General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, in 2005 (who are these people who elected him?!?!!?). He is also a tenured Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, on leave of absence while serving as INTERPOL’s Secretary General.
He was head of the Department’s "Waco Administrative Review Team" which produced a report on the ATF’s actions against the Branch Davidians leading to the murderous and vile Waco Siege.
Mr Noble previously served as the United States Department of Treasury’s first Undersecretary for Enforcement (1993-1996), where he was in charge of some of the US’s then-largest law enforcement agencies, including the Secret Service, Customs Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Office of Foreign Assets Control. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant US Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice (1984-1989).
A former member of INTERPOL’s Executive Committee, Mr Noble was also President of the 26-nation Financial Action Task Force, the anti-money laundering organization established by the G7 in 1989. Mr Noble served as a Law Clerk for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, from 1982-1984, where he received the highest evaluation ever given to a Law Clerk by Judge Higginbotham.
Under Mr Noble’s leadership, INTERPOL has reorganized its activities around four core functions, transformed its technology and revitalized its databases and operational police support services.
Between 2000 and 2008, the number of Red Notices – international wanted persons notices – issued by INTERPOL nearly tripled, from 1,077 to 3,126; the number of ‘diffusions’ issued through INTERPOL more than doubled – from 5,333 to 13,339; and the number of annual arrests of individuals who were the subjects of INTERPOL Red Notices or diffusions surged from 534 to 5,680. In total, more than 27,000 international criminals who were the subjects of INTERPOL Red Notices or diffusions were arrested during this period.
In addition, INTERPOL has created and launched the world’s first and only global police communications system, called I-24/7, which empowers police agencies in 188 countries to instantly exchange information and to access INTERPOL’s databases. It has launched the world’s first global database of stolen and lost travel documents, which at the end of 2008 contained information on nearly 16.7 million travel documents from 145 countries; has created the world’s first international automated DNA database; has created a database aimed at fighting the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; and has created and deployed technologies, called MIND/FIND, that can put many of these tools into the hands of officers at airports, borders or anywhere else they are needed.
Under Mr Noble’s leadership, INTERPOL has also created the Command and Co-ordination Centre, which operates around the clock in all of INTERPOL’s four official languages (Arabic, English, French and Spanish) to serve as the first point of contact for any member country faced with a terrorist attack or other crisis. It is the only operations centre in the world through which any officer in any country can reach out to the global law enforcement community for information or other assistance regarding an investigation.
INTERPOL has also created deployable Incident Response Teams (IRT), which can be dispatched to the scene within hours of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other major crisis, and INTERPOL Major Event Support Teams (IMEST), which are available to help co-ordinate security for major international events.
Mr Noble oversaw the opening of INTERPOL’s New York office at the United Nations in 2004, which resulted in closer collaboration between the two organizations, including the creation of the INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notice for individuals subject to UN sanctions against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. As a result of this successful collaboration, the UN unanimously adopted a resolution to encourage further co-operation between the UN and INTERPOL, marking the first time in history that a UN resolution focused exclusively on the work of law enforcement through INTERPOL.
Mr Noble has tirelessly promoted these innovations and other INTERPOL services by personally meeting with officials from around the world, both those who visit the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, France, and those he has met in the more than 120 countries he has visited since taking office. He has also given official testimony before the United States Congress, G8 and other bodies, and has authored a number of articles for books, newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and other publications.
In addition, an INTERPOL office was opened at the European Union in Brussels in 2008, in order to promote closer co-operation and joint initiatives in Europe.
Mr Noble has also spearheaded the creation of a bioterrorism prevention unit at the General Secretariat, and has initiated the process of creating the INTERPOL-UNODC Anti-Corruption Academy, in Vienna, Austria, which will be the world’s first international institute dedicated to fighting corruption.
During his tenure, Mr Noble has presided over a period of unprecedented growth at the organization. Between 2000 and 2008, the INTERPOL budget rose by more than 50 per cent (funded by WHOM??), while the number of nationalities represented at the General Secretariat and regional offices increased from 52 to more than 80.
In 2008 Mr Noble was awarded the world-renowned Légion d’Honneur – the highest decoration in France – by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In his speech President Sarkozy gave recognition to INTERPOL’s long-standing achievements and to recent transformations under Mr Noble’s leadership.
Mr Noble holds a Juris Doctorate Degree from Stanford University Law School, where he was Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. A national of the United States, Mr Noble speaks French, German and Spanish in addition to his native English.
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"Less than one year after my confirmation, Al Qaeda terrorists used US soil and US targets to murder thousands of U.S. citizens and citizens from more than 70 of our member countries spread around the globe. On September 11, 2001, the entire world’s attention was finally drawn to the importance of the anti-terrorism fight. On that day, we as a world community were put on notice by Al Qaeda that our personal and national security could never again be taken for granted. It does not matter where you were. It does not matter what you were doing. Each and every one of you can remember where you were when you first learned about or first saw images of the terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center on the 11th of September 2001. For Interpol, the 11th of September was a moment of reckoning. It was the time for us to decide what kind of international police organization we wanted Interpol to be. Although Interpol had been created over 80 years ago by police chiefs to provide operational police support internationally, something had happened to Interpol over the years. Interpol had become so slow, so unresponsive that in many police circles around the world Interpol was considered irrelevant to their day-to-day needs. But, it was on September 11, 2001 that Interpol went operational and that we committed ourselves to working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to support our NCBs and police services. And it was on that day that we first began reaching out to you in times of crisis, rather than waiting for you to ask for help. One can say that Interpol was reborn on the 11th of September 2001."
In 2008, he was awarded the Légion d’honneur by the Evil Satanist baby killer French President Nicolas Sarkozy
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Royal Courts of Justice
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The Royal Courts of Justice, commonly called the Law Courts, is the building in London which houses the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. Courts within the building are open to the public although there may be some restrictions depending upon the nature of the cases being heard.
The building is a large grey stone edifice in the Victorian Gothic style and was designed by George Edmund Street, a solicitor turned architect. It was built in the 1870s. The Royal Courts of Justice were opened by Queen Victoria in December 1882. It is on The Strand, in the City of Westminster, near the border with the City of London (Temple Bar) and the London Borough of Camden. It is surrounded by the four Inns of Court and London School of Economics. The nearest tube stations are Chancery Lane and Temple.
Those who do not have legal representation may receive some assistance within the court building. The Citizens Advice Bureau has a small office in the main entrance hall where lawyers provide free advice. There is usually a queue for this service. There is also a Personal Support Unit where litigants in person can get emotional support and practical information about what happens in court.
The Central Criminal Court, popularly known as the Old Bailey, is situated about half a mile to the East. It has no other connection with the Royal Courts of Justice.
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