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The American Police Community or Ameripol (Comunidad de Policías de América
or Ameripol) is a recently created continental police organization with the
mission of fighting drugs".
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameripol
AMERIPOL was established during the III Encuentro de Directores, Comandantes y
Jefes de Policías de Latinoamérica y El Caribe (Third Summit of Latin American
Directors, Commanders and Chiefs of Police) held in Bogota from November 12 to
15, 2007.
Source:
http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/SERVICIOS_AL_CIUDADANO/Enlaces_interes/AMERIPOL
Its organizational chart is as follows:
- Consejo de Directores, Comandantes, Jefes y Comisionados de los cuerpos de
Policía y/o instituciones homólogas de América (Council of Directors)
- Presidencia (Presidency)
- Secretaría Ejecutiva (Executive Secretariat). The Secretaría Ejecutiva
(Executive Secretariat) was inaugurated on April 17, 2008 and it's located in
Bogotá, Colombia
- Unidades de Coordinación (Coordination Units)
- Unidades Nacionales (National Units)
Sources:
https://www.comunidadameripol.org/comunidad_ameripol/15/nuestra-organizacion.html
(broken link)
http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/SERVICIOS_AL_CIUDADANO/Enlaces_interes/AMERIPOL/ORGANIZACION
(Full organizational chart and more thorough information on the organization)
The Statute of the creation of the organization can be searched here:
Spanish
English
French
Portuguese.
The member States are: Argentina, Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,
Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay,
Peru, and Uruguay.
Observer status:
BKA (Bundeskriminalamt) (Germany)
CLACIP (Comunidad Latinoamérica y del
Caribe de Inteligencia Policial)
Cuerpo de Policía Nacional(Spain)
DEA (United States)
EUROPOL
Guardia Civil (Spain)
Guardia di Finaza (Italy)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security (OAS)
Esteban Rivera, 31 May 2011
The flag of AMERIPOL is the
coat of arms
on a light blue horizontal flag, seen here:
http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/31828939.JPG
Image of
desktop flag of Ameripol. Picture taken on March
10, 2010 at the Colombian Police Historical Museum in Bogotá.
For additional information please see:
Ameripol (official website): http://www.comunidadameripol.org/ (broken link)
http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/SERVICIOS_AL_CIUDADANO/Enlaces_interes/AMERIPOL
(Information on AMERIPOL from the Colombian Police website)
Esteban Rivera, 31 May 2011
New flag and coat of arms adopted in 2013. Comunidad de Policías de América.
Fred Drews, 08 June 2015
image by Fred Drews, 08 June 2015
image by Zoltan Horvath, 28 September 2013