It’s the world’s largest international police organization, with 190 member countries. This time around, instead of catching criminals, the Interpol will help identify those who died from Typhoon Yolanda.
According to a press release on the Interpol website, “an Interpol Incident Response Team (IRT) has been deployed to the Philippines to help assess the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) requirements following Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in the Philippines) which has left thousands of people dead, missing and displaced.”
The team includes specialists from the General Secretariat headquarters, DVI and DNA experts from Canada, South Africa, and the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).
This is the second Interpol IRT deployed to the Philippines at the request of national authorities. In 2008, a team was sent to help identify those who died when the Princess of the Stars ferry capsized during Typhoon Frank. Some 800 lives were lost in that disaster.
Photo from Interpol website
