Police Chiefs From Middle East And North Africa Meet To Tackle Evolving Regional Crime Threats

Key Takeaways:

• MENA police chiefs met in Cairo Sept. 1–2 under INTERPOL to tighten coordination on organized crime, national-security priorities, and cross-border jurisdiction, and to adopt INTERPOL’s Operational Task Force model.
• Agenda: drugs, human trafficking and migrant smuggling, money laundering; plus crime-as-a-service, ransomware, and attacks on digital infrastructure. Operation Ramz (13 countries) was cited: 201 arrests, 382 more suspects, ~8,000 data shares against phishing, malware, and…