BEIJING, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Interpol will deploy a
support team to Beijing before the Olympics next year to help Chinese government
with security preparations, Interpol's top official told Xinhua on Monday.
The team would provide detailed information on
international criminal suspects, such as names, fingerprints, photographs and
DNA profiles, said Ronald K. Noble, Secretary General of Interpol.
Noble made the remarks during an International
Conference on Security Cooperation for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opened
in Beijing on Monday.
Noble said Interpol had designed its most ambitious
passport and visa application screening process to identify stolen, lost and
fraudulent travel documents as well as suspected terrorists and dangerous
criminals.
"Terrorists will not use their real names, so they
will use documents that were stolen or lost in order to conceal their
identities," Noble said.
"Our system will permit automated screening of
thousands of individuals against Interpol's global most-wanted databases at the
time of their visa application, which will provide China with the most advanced
early detection system of fraudulent travel documents and criminals currently
available," Noble said.
He said Interpol's around-the-clock Command and
Coordination Center would give the highest priority to information relevant to
the security of the Games that passes through its 186 member country network of
Interpol National Central Bureaus.
Noble said Interpol had also developed a web service
specifically for China based on its database of 15.7 million stolen, lost or
fraudulent travel documents.