But despite the size of its membership, critics charge that without a police force of its own, Interpol is little more than a bureaucratic clearinghouse for wanted notices seeking criminals and missing persons.
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In a bid to overcome critics who call the agency irrelevant and too bureaucratic, Interpol unveiled a new Internet-based system to send most-wanted notices within one day, Interpol officials said.
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At the SEC, John Stark, special counsel for Internet projects, said his agency was also considering posting wanted notices on its Web site ( http : / / www . sec . gov ).
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In the wake of the terror attacks, Interpol set up a 24-hour center to expedite certain most-wanted notices and realized that clackety telex machines and postal service were no longer good enough.
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In many countries, the state is legally banned from maintaining data based on race, which often makes the police issue wanted notices to the public that include labels like " light skin complexion ", etc.
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The wanted notice for Charles Ghankay Taylor was posted early Thursday afternoon on Interpol's Web site and said he was sought for " crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions ."
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Police issued a wanted notice Saturday for a man whose apartment building was wrecked by an explosion, but wouldn't say whether he was a suspect in a string of blasts in factory housing that killed at least 18 people.
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On an urgent matter, the new system would be able to circulate a wanted notice in one day, Morris said, bringing the group even closer to its stated purpose : to help the world's police share information.
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In many countries, such as France, the state is legally banned from maintaining data based on race, which often makes the police issue wanted notices to the public that include labels like " dark skin complexion ", etc.
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More than 20 organizers have been detained in recent days over the almost seven-week strike at the Huarun Xianyang factory in Shaanxi province, and wanted notices have been issued for three others, Hong Kong-based China Labor Bulletin reported.
