Ronald Kenneth Noble (born 1957) is an American law enforcement officer. Since 1999 he has been the the secretary general of Interpol, the international crime-fighting organization. From 1994 until 1996 he was the Undersecretary for Enforcement of the United States Department of the Treasury in which he was responsible for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He served as the chief of staff of the Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice from 1988 until 1989. He is a 1979 graduate of the University of New Hampshire and a 1982 graduate of Stanford Law School. Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... The U.S. Treasury building today. ... ATF Seal The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (abbreviated ATF, sometimes BATF or BATFE) is a United States federal agency; more specifically a specialized law enforcement and regulatory organization within the United States Department of Justice. ... The U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division develops, enforces, and supervises the application of all federal criminal laws in the United States, except those specifically assigned to other divisions. ... The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. “Justice Department” redirects here. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire (USNH). ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California in Silicon Valley. ...

Ronald K. Noble was elected Secretary General by the 69th INTERPOL General Assembly in Rhodes, Greece, in 2000, and was unanimously reelected to a second five-year term by the 74th INTERPOL General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, in 2005. He is also a tenured Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, on leave of absence while serving as INTERPOL’s Secretary General. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Mr Noble previously served as the United States Department of Treasury’s first Undersecretary for Enforcement (1993-1996), where he was in charge of some of the US’s then-largest law enforcement agencies, including the Secret Service, Customs Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Office of Foreign Assets Control. Prior to that, he served as an Assistant US Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice (1984-1989). The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department, a treasury, of the United States government established by an Act of U.S. Congress in 1789 to manage the revenue of the United States government. ... Because of both the secrecy of secret services and the controversial nature of the issues involved, there is some difficulty in separating the definitions of secret service, secret police, intelligence agency etc. ... The United States Customs Service (USCS) was the portion of the US Federal Government dedicated to keeping illegal products outside of US borders. ... The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE or ATFE) is a law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice. ... The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) serves as an interagency law enforcement training organization for 82 United States Federal agencies. ... The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) maintains a comprehensive database of financial records created in 1990 as an arm of the United States Department of the Treasury to combat money laundering. ... The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, unapproved international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the unapproved proliferation... The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ...

A former member of INTERPOL’s Executive Committee, Mr Noble was also President of the 26-nation Financial Action Task Force, the anti-money laundering organization established by the G7 in 1989. Mr Noble served as a Law C lerk for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, from 1982-1984, where he received the highest evaluation ever given to a Law Clerk by Judge Higginbotham. The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), also known by the French name Groupe daction financière sur le blanchiment de capitaux (GAFI), is an inter-governmental body founded in 1989 by the G7. ...

Under Mr Noble’s leadership, INTERPOL has reorganized its activities around three core functions, transformed its technology and revitalized its databases and operational police support services. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Between 2000 and 2006, INTERPOL’s identification of suspected terrorists increased by more than 300 percent; the number of Red Notices – international wanted persons notices – issued by INTERPOL nearly tripled, from 1,077 to 2,804; the number of ‘diffusions’ (similar to a ‘be on the lookout’ in the United States) issued through INTERPOL more than doubled – from 5,333 to 12,212; and the number of annual arrests of individuals who were the subjects of INTERPOL Red Notices or diffusions surged from 534 to 4,259, a 698 per cent increase. In total, more than 16,000 international criminals who were the subjects of INTERPOL Red Notices or diffusions were arrested during this period. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

In addition, INTERPOL has created and launched the world’s first and only global police communications system, called I-24/7, which empowers police agencies in 186 countries to instantly exchange information and to access INTERPOL’s databases. It has launched the world’s first global database of stolen and lost travel documents, which currently contains information on nearly 14 million travel documents from more than 120 countries; has created the world’s first international automated DNA database; has created a database aimed at fighting the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet; and has created and deployed technologies, called MIND/FIND, that can put many of these tools into the hands of officers at airports, borders or anywhere else they are needed. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Under Mr Noble’s leadership, INTERPOL has also created the Command and Co-ordination Centre, which operates around the clock in all of INTERPOL’s four official languages (Arabic, English, French and Spanish) to serve as the first point of contact for any member country faced with a terrorist attack or other crisis. It is the only operations center in the world through which any officer in any country can reach out to the global law enforcement community for information or other assistance regarding an investigation. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

INTERPOL has also created deployable Incident Response Teams (IRT), which can be dispatched to the scene within hours of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other major crisis, and INTERPOL Major Event Support Teams (IMEST), which are available to help co-ordinate security for major international events. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Mr Noble oversaw the opening of INTERPOL’s New York office at the United Nations in 2004, which resulted in closer collaboration between the two organizations, including the creation of the INTERPOL-United Nations Security Council Special Notice for individuals subject to UN sanctions against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. As a result of this successful collaboration, the UN unanimously adopted a resolution to encourage further co-operation between the UN and INTERPOL, marking the first time in history that a UN resolution focused exclusively on the work of law enforcement through INTERPOL. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... Map of major attacks attributed to al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda (also al-Qaida or al-Qaida or al-Qaidah) (Arabic: ‎ , translation: The Base) is an international alliance of militant Sunni jihadist organizations. ... The Taliban (Pashto: , also anglicized as Taleban) are an extremist fundamentalist Sunni Muslim and ethnic Pashtun movement that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1995 until 2001, when their leaders were removed from power by a cooperative military effort between the United States and the Northern Alliance. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Mr Noble has tirelessly promoted these innovations and other INTERPOL services by personally meeting with officials from around the world, both those who visit the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, France, and those he has met in the more than 100 countries he has visited since taking office. He has also given official testimony before the United States Congress, G8 and other bodies, and has authored a number of articles for books, newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and other publications. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Mr Noble has also spearheaded the creation of a bioterrorism prevention unit at the General Secretariat, and has initiated the process of creating the INTERPOL Anti-Corruption Academy, in Vienna, Austria, which will be the world’s first international institute dedicated to fighting corruption.

During his tenure, Mr Noble has presided over a period of unprecedented growth at the organization. Between 2000 and 2006, the INTERPOL budget rose by nearly 50 per cent, while the number of nationalities represented at the General Secretariat and regional offices increased from 52 to more than 80. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Mr Noble holds a Juris Doctorate Degree from Stanford University Law School, where he was Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire. A national of the United States, Mr Noble speaks French, German and Spanish in addition to his native English. (The wind of freedom blows. ... The Stanford Law Review is a legal journal produced independently by Stanford Law School students. ... University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire (USNH). ...

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• INTERPOL biography of Ronald Kenneth Noble, INTERPOL Secretary General