Our clients have come to us with many different issues regarding Interpol Notices. Knowing the meaning behind an Interpol Notice and the corresponding rights is essential to handle such extreme situations. This article will provide you with the information you need to get a legal overview of the different Interpol Notices.
Should you find yourself in a situation that requires direct and personalized assistance, make sure to contact our team. With the necessary information about your case and the nature of the notice issued, we will provide you with the legal aid you need to build up your defence position successfully.

Interpol Blue Notices operate similarly to Interpol Red Notices. Interpol Red Notices can lead to immediate arrest and extradition, whereas Interpol Blue Notices should lead to additional information about a person’s identity, prior convictions, recent location or activities related to a crime. It is not an international arrest warrant and it can be issued before criminal charges are filed. A person who is subject to an Interpol Blue Notice may not have been convicted of any crime. Instead, they can be sought after for providing more information about a criminal case as a witness or an informant to prepare criminal proceedings.

A member state issues an Interpol Green Notice if police authorities want to warn each other about a person’s criminal activities. The Interpol Green Notice can consist of as many information as are relevant to the case. This can be the case if a person is suspected of being a possible threat to public safety. The subject of an Interpol Green Notice can often be a person who has committed a criminal offence before and there is a good case that they are likely to commit one again. These cases are often related to serial sex offences.

Yellow Notices are issued to help locate missing persons or people who are unable to identify themselves. The disappearance has to have prior been reported to the police or the person unable to identify themselves has to have been picked up by the police. These cases can often involve minors or people who may not be of sound mind. Child abduction, kidnappings and unexplainable disappearances are often related to the issuing of Interpol Yellow Notices.

If police authorities need to warn each other about an event, an object, a procedure, a modus operandi or a person, they can issue Interpol Orange Notices. Such warnings can refer to parcel bombs or other dangerous and explosive materials that can threaten public safety.

An Interpol Black Notice is issued to seek information on unidentified bodies. Interpol will then circulate photographs of the body to collect information. In many of these cases, the person found may have been using false identities, which is why the identification process might be difficult.

Interpol Purple Notices are used to collect information about the operating of a criminal or a criminal group. Police forces should particularly seek information on objects and devices they use as well as their hiding places. Interpol Purple Notices have mostly been used in piracy or poaching cases to locate ships or similar objects.

Another – less formal – alert mechanism is the diffusion notice. Diffusions circulate throughout the system more informally without record to a formal Notice. However, the risk of triggering an arrest, similar to an Interpol Red Notice, still applies to them. They are, like Interpol Notices, also color coded and can be circulated to one or more member states of Interpol. It must be pointed out that diffusions still have to comply with Interpol’s rules and that recourse is available.
Clients are frequently concerned that a member country could issue a diffusion after an Interpol Red Notice has been challenged and could eventually be removed. In this context, it must be noted that Interpol does not want to circulate data that violate its rules. If there is a reasonable chance that an issued Notice or diffusion might violate Interpol’s rules, the individual should consult a lawyer specialized in Interpol law.

Our highly qualified team has the required expertise and experience to handle these situations. Communicating with Interpol and advising them of the possibility that circulated data might violate their rules can mean the beginning of our client ́s freedom from the misuse of the Interpol notice system.