Nusa Dua, Bali (ANTARA News) - Indonesias Police Chief General Tito Karnavian held three separate bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Australia, China and Timor Leste, on the sidelines of the 85th General Assembly of the International Police (Interpol) here on Tuesday.

"The bilateral meetings discussed agreements to counter and prevent transnational crimes and to forge capacity building," Martinus Sitompul, spokesman of the Indonesian Police, said.

Indonesia and Timor Leste agreed to extend their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

On the second day of the General Assembly, there will be a signing of MOU with the Aseanopol.

The meeting was scheduled to discuss an Interpol roadmap and action plan until 2020. The participants will also discuss global threats and Interpol strategies in countering terrorism, organized crimes and cybercrimes.

On Thursday, the assembly will select a new president of Interpol for the period between 2016 and 2020 to succeed outgoing Interpol President Mireille Ballestrazzi of France.

The assembly is being attended by some 830 police chiefs and senior law enforcement officials from 164 countries.

"We are here because the Interpol General Assembly is a forum to realize global interests related to our shared responsibilities in protecting and securing the global community," Indonesian vice President M Jusuf Kalla said in his opening remarks on Monday.

Identifying and meeting member countries security needs in the face of an ever-changing threat landscape is the focus of the General Assembly, the Interpol said on its website.

A key issue during the four-day (7 to 10 November) conference will be the need for enhanced information sharing via Interpol, particularly biometric data to assist countries to identify and interdict these potential threats.

The detection, investigation, prevention and prosecution of organized crime groups operating across a range of illicit markets, and addressing the increasing sophistication and diversification of the modus operandi of cybercriminals will also be addressed during the conference.(*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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