Recommendations Recommendations for INTERPOL and the CCF Ensure the effectiveness of the CCF reforms Reform Diffusions • INTERPOL and the CCF should develop more robust mechanisms for ensuring that NCBs comply with the CCF’s directions and its decisions, especially regarding deletions of data. • The CCF should clarify and publish how NCBs’ refusal to disclose data without justification affects its own decisions. • The CCF should limit the use of addenda. • INTERPOL, acting through the General Assembly, should ensure that the CCF is given a sufficient budget to implement the reforms effectively. • INTERPOL should look into the possibility of allowing appeals of CCF decisions. • • INTERPOL must ensure that Diffusions, like Red Notices, are subject to review before information in the alert can be circulated through the INTERPOL Information System. INTERPOL should develop more robust mechanisms for ensuring that NCBs comply with its decisions to delete a Diffusion. Improve ex-ante reviews of INTERPOL alerts • • • • 70 INTERPOL should ensure that all INTERPOL alerts currently in circulation are subject to the more stringent process of review that is now being applied to new requests for Red Notices. INTERPOL should clarify how it carries out ex-ante reviews. INTERPOL should adopt measures to ensure that it has information that would help the organisation to identify alerts that violate its rules, for example, by strengthening relationships with UN human rights bodies and by developing a database of trustworthy sources. INTERPOL should ensure that the NDTF has adequate funding, so that it is properly staffed and resourced. Enhance protections for refugees and other individuals in need of international protection • The Refugee Policy should be published on INTERPOL’s website. • The scope of INTERPOL’s Refugee Policy should be expanded to include those who have been granted subsidiary protection and those who have lost their status through naturalisation. • INTERPOL should adopt a policy on extradition refusals similar to its policy on refugees – under which there is a strong presumption that an INTERPOL alert violates INTERPOL’s rules if there has been an extradition refusal on human rights and/or political motivation grounds.