Real-time passport control in Tripoli (Libya)
(BRUXELLES2) Notice to all criminals or people wanted by Interpol! Tripoli International Airport is now linked to Interpol for real-time passport control. the device was inaugurated today (March 6). The Libyan border control authorities will thus be able to directly consult Interpol's databases and access the Interpol network to identify stolen or lost passports and help identify wanted persons, including terrorists. suspects or criminals operating internationally. The Interpol database contains some 36 million documents to which 166 countries have access; it is consulted more than 50 million times per month.
This installation was financed by the European Union as part of an Instrument for Stability program to the tune of 2,2 million euros. A program which is part of a more general EU strategy to secure Libya's borders and which will lead to the establishment of a European CFSP mission.
The program, which started last September, consists of three components:
- the strengthening of the National Central Bureau (NCB) of the Libyan Interpol and its network, which covers in particular the central services in charge of the fight against drugs, border security and migration, as well as the main crossing points of the Libyan borders which are international airports, seaports and the main land crossing points with Tunisia and Egypt;
- the strengthening of the criminal analysis capacity of the Department of the Judicial Police of the Ministry of the Interior;
- a strategic study of transnational organized crime and terrorist threats in Libya.
