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INTERPOL General Secretariat 2008. Building Anti-Counterfeiting Capacity and Capabilities David Asante-Apeatu Director Specialized Crime and Analysis INTERPOL 4 th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy 3-5 February 2008, Dubai. INTERPOL
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INTERPOL General Secretariat 2008 Building Anti-Counterfeiting Capacity and Capabilities David Asante-Apeatu Director Specialized Crime and Analysis INTERPOL 4th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy 3-5 February 2008, Dubai
INTERPOL General Secretariat 2008 IP Crime Capacity Building Level 1 • INTERPOL core IP Crime Program capacity Level 2 • Operational support for member country and regional interventions in transnational organized IP crime
INTERPOL General Secretariat 2008 IP Crime Capacity Building Level 1 • Investment in IP Crime Unit staff • Value-added services for all stakeholders • Organizational support for IP crime function
INTERPOL General Secretariat 2008 IP Crime Capacity Building Level 2 • INTERPOL leadership to ‘facilitate and coordinate’ regional cross-border interventions in IP crime • INTERPOL uniquely able to coordinate collective regional IP crime enforcement action
INTERPOL General Secretariat 2008 Operation Jupiter – South America Participating countries • Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay October 2006 to January 2007 • Hundreds of arrests and seizure of counterfeit and pirate goods valued at $35 Million October 2007 to March 2008 • Seizure of counterfeit and pirate goods to be in excess of $55 Million
INTERPOL General Secretariat 2008 Operation Jupiter – South America Benefits for participating countries • Development of national police expertise and IP crime investigating skills • Raised profile of IP crime as a policing priority • Catalyst for increased level of IP crime policing activity and dedicated IP crime investigative units • Continuity, better communication, cooperation and coordination between police and customs
INTERPOL General Secretariat 2008 IP Crime Investigative Training • INTERPOL and Guardia di Finanza co-hosted IP Crime training Courses • Targeted at police middle managers with responsibility for investigating transnational and organized IP crime • 100 operational police managers to be trained in 2008 • Priority given to current and future Jupiter countries • Importance of support for INTERPOL initiatives from IP crime affected industries
INTERPOL General Secretariat 2008 David Asante-Apeatu Director Specialized Crime and Analysis INTERPOL E-mail: d.asante-apeatu@interpol.int