Amit Shah to launch Bharatpol for international police assistance

New Delhi: A new cutting-edge platform, Bharatpol, which will allow police forces of the states and union territories as well as central agencies to seamlessly send their requests and coordinate information sharing in realtime for international assistance in criminal matters, will be inaugurated by Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday in Delhi. “Bharatpol portal will significantly facilitate Indian LEAs enabling real-time information sharing for faster access to international police assistance,” Union home ministry said in a statement on Monday. The anti-corruption agency’s Global Operation Centre handled 17,368 international assistance requests in 2023 and as many as 100 red notices were issued by Interpol on criminals and fugitives wanted by Indian law enforcement agencies, the highest ever in a year. Apart from red notice, other notices issued by the Interpol include – yellow notices for missing persons, blue notice for information about a person’s identity, location, or activities in relation to a criminal investigation; black notice to seek information on unidentified bodies, green notice to provide warning about a person’s criminal activities, orange notice to warn of an event, a person, an object or a process representing a serious and imminent threat to public safety and purple notice to seek or provide information on modus operandi, objects, devices and concealment methods used by criminals.