The Police Community of the Americas or Ameripol (Spanish: Comunidad de Policías de América) is a hemispheric mechanism of cooperation police organization created in 2007.
Mission: The Police Community of the Americas - AMERIPOL is a hemispheric mechanism of cooperation, which purpose is to promote and enhance police cooperation in terms of technical-scientific facts, training, exchange of information and progress in terms of legal assistance to guide strategic and operational work against threats to public and citizen safety.
Vision: For the year 2015, the Police Community of the Americas - AMERIPOL will be constituted as an excellent organism of Police cooperation for the joint deployment of strategies against organized crime and transnational crime in the Americas, supported in this work from every police force and homologous institution, thereby ensuring calmness to citizens.
Representatives of 18 countries formalized the creation of Ameripol on 14 November 2007 in Bogotá, Colombia.
Member police forces
- Fuerza de Policía Real de Antigua y Barbuda
- Argentine National Gendarmerie
- Departamento de Policía de Belice
- Policía Boliviana
- Departamento de Polícia Federal
- Carabineros de Chile
- National Police of Colombia
- Fuerza Pública de Costa Rica
- Organismo de Investigación Judicial
- Policía Nacional Revolucionaria de Cuba
- Policía Nacional de Ecuador
- National Civil Police of El Salvador
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Policía de Puerto Rico
- Policía Nacional Civil de Guatemala
- Fuerza de Policía de Guiana
- Haitian National Police
- Policía Nacional de Honduras
- Fuerza Constabularia de Jamaica
- Federal Police (Mexico)
- National Police of Nicaragua
- Policía Nacional de Panamá
- Panamanian Public Forces
- Policía Nacional del Paraguay
- National Police of Peru
- Policía Nacional de República Dominicana
- Fuerza de Policía Real de San Cristóbal y Nieves
- Fuerza de Policía Real de Santa Lucia
- Policía Nacional de Uruguay
- Servicio de Policía de Trinidad y Tobago
Observer agencies
- BKA (Oficina Federal de Investigación Criminal de Alemania)
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- CLACIP (Comunidad Latinoamérica y del Caribe de Inteligencia Policial
- (Comisión de Jefes/as, Directores/as de Policía de Centroamérica, México, el Caribe y Colombia)
- National Police Corps of Spain
- Civil Guard (Spain)
- Europol (Oficina de Policía de Europa)
- Guardia di Finanza
- International Association of Chiefs of Police
- Carabinieri
- Dirección Central del Servicio Antidrogas de Italia
- Organization of American States
- Interpol
- RSS (Sistema de Seguridad Regional)
- Ministry of the Interior of France
- Cuerpo de Servicios Policiales de Holanda
- Policía Nacional de Suecia
- Polícia de Segurança Pública
- Center for Research and National Security
- Policía Principat d'Andorra
Executive Secretaries and presidents
Executive Secretaries:
- Rolando Alexandre de Souza[1]
President:
- General Commander Andrés Severino [2]
See also
- Europol, a similar Europe-wide organization.
- Interpol
- North American Union