Interpol Secretary-General Valdecy Urquiza highlighted the importance of public security in the strategies for the preservation of the environment. According to him, the expectation is that the organization will participate in COP30, which will be based in Belém, Pará, in November this year.
“COP, in previous editions, the conclusions they have come to the discussions is that the topic of public safety is essential with regard to the preservation of the environment. You have criminal organizations working on the extraction of assets illegally, and it is necessary to include public safety in the discussion of environmental preservation strategies. So, the expectation is that Interpol is present, together with the Federal Police, and police representatives of others and others Parts, especially here from the Amazon, in South America, for a discussion about the performance of public security regarding the fight against environmental crimes. ”
Valdecy Urquiza explained that Interpol has specialized teams that help in identifying the routes and international organizations behind illegal wood, ores and wildlife trafficking.
“Environmental offenses today are also transnational offenses, because, although they are extracted in our case here in the Amazon, you have cases of illegal wood extraction, ore, but most of the time, the market is international. So there is a need for joint action so that you can identify and perform the eventual arrest of members of the criminal organization in their entirety, both those who act in the extraction, but finally in trafficking and finally on sale to the sale and finally on sale to the sale to the sale and finally on sale to the sale to the sale to the sale to the sale and the sale to the sale and the sale to the sale to the sale and the sale to the sale and the sale to the sale and the sale to the sale and the sale to the sale and the sale to the sale and the sale to the sale to the sale and the sale to the sale to the sale to the sale to the sale to the sale to the sale End consumer, ”he said.
