All news Share | Print 06 November 2012 - Media release Historic INTERPOL General Assembly in Rome calls for stronger partnerships in combating crime ROME, Italy -- INTERPOL's 81st General Assembly, the largest ever in the Organization's history with more than 1000 delegates from 170 countries, is calling on law enforcement to work closer together and develop partnerships in order to achieve sustainable success in identifying and combating future crime threats. The four-day conference (5 -- 8 November) was launched with a Ministerial meeting attended by some 100 global leaders who endorsed a joint declaration recognizing the need to identify viable strategies to effectively address the changing modes of contemporary criminal violence. Addressing the meeting, Italy's Minister of the Interior Annamaria Cancellieri described INTERPOL's global role as 'evermore demanding and important' and underlined the strategic importance of the conference: "INTERPOL's General Assembly will consider possible responses of states to transnational crime issues such as terrorism at a time when it is no longer possible to differentiate between internal and external security policies." INTERPOL President Khoo Boon Hui told the delegates that today's intricately connected and interdependent people, societies and markets had created a more complex crime landscape. "Increasingly, the international community and industry players will look to us as the voice of reason and the agent of change to make ...