Konstantina Zivla explains the legal effect of a CCF decision: when INTERPOL must delete a Red Notice, how implementation works, and what happens if it fails to comply.
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Track a Notice
Track a Notice
Most INTERPOL Red Notices are not publicly available. Only a small fraction appear on INTERPOL’s website; the rest are visible exclusively to law enforcement authorities. Many individuals discover a Red Notice only after an arrest or detention.
To reduce this risk, seek specialist legal support to check, track, and verify whether an INTERPOL Notice exists and how it affects your international mobility.
To reduce this risk, seek specialist legal support to check, track, and verify whether an INTERPOL Notice exists and how it affects your international mobility.
Remove a Notice
Remove a Notice
Challenging an INTERPOL Notice requires precision, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of the CCF’s rules. With the proper legal guidance, deletion is entirely achievable.
Gain control of your situation with specialised representation and a tailored submission built around your personal and legal circumstances.
Gain control of your situation with specialised representation and a tailored submission built around your personal and legal circumstances.
Revise a Notice
Revise a Notice
Requesting a revision of an INTERPOL Notice can be just as complex as obtaining its deletion.
Although the criteria differ, both processes demand the same level of expertise: precise evidence, persistent advocacy, and a strategic, well-structured submission before the CCF.
Although the criteria differ, both processes demand the same level of expertise: precise evidence, persistent advocacy, and a strategic, well-structured submission before the CCF.
Our mission is to bring clarity, credibility, and accountability to the complex world of INTERPOL Notices. This platform serves as a trusted reference point for those seeking to understand, challenge, or remove INTERPOL Red Notices and personal data from INTERPOL’s systems.
Founded and authored by Konstantina Zivla, a lawyer specialised in INTERPOL Defence and CCF Submissions, this resource bridges the gap between legal complexity and public understanding. It reflects a commitment to transparency, legality, and the protection of individual rights in cross-border investigations.
Konstantina is a qualified criminal defence lawyer admitted to the Cyprus Bar Association in 2023. She is an Associate Member at Guernica 37 Chambers in London, a LEAP member of Fair Trials, and an active member of leading international legal networks, including the European Criminal Bar Association, the Defence and Extradition Lawyers’ Forum, and the International Bar Association. Through these affiliations, she provides coordinated, strategic defence for clients facing criminal proceedings across multiple jurisdictions.
Her practice is international by design. Konstantina advises and represents clients in INTERPOL matters connected to the United Kingdom, Cyprus, the United States, Iran, Switzerland, Israel, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Venezuela, Mexico, Russia, and Belgium, working closely with foreign counsel to ensure effective defence strategies in complex, multi-jurisdictional cases.
In parallel with her legal practice, Konstantina is a published author and researcher on international policing and transnational criminal justice. She writes on INTERPOL compliance, abuse of international cooperation mechanisms, extradition law, and human rights safeguards. Her recent publications include a detailed analysis of INTERPOL’s role in international child abduction cases, published in the International Enforcement Law Reporter (Volume 41, Issue 2), as well as an examination of the legal and practical challenges of international policing and INTERPOL’s non-application in the occupied part of Cyprus, published in the same journal and HeinOnline (Volume 41, Issue 6, published on 16 May 2025).
What sets this initiative apart is precision, insight, and integrity. Every explanation, analysis, and guide is crafted to empower individuals to navigate INTERPOL’s notice system with confidence.
Our clientele is global, and we are pleased to assist individuals worldwide with INTERPOL-related matters, regardless of location. Whether you are based in Europe, the Americas, Asia, or Africa, you are welcome to submit your enquiry and schedule a consultation.
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INTERPOL Defence Services
An INTERPOL Red Notice is not an arrest warrant, nor does it establish guilt. Rather, it is an international alert circulated to law enforcement authorities in 196 INTERPOL member countries, which often results in serious practical consequences, including restrictions on travel, banking disruptions, and significant reputational harm.
Successfully challenging an INTERPOL Red Notice or Diffusion requires specialised legal expertise, a carefully structured strategy, and in-depth knowledge of INTERPOL’s Rules on the Processing of Data (“RPD”).
We specialise in defending individuals targeted by politically motivated INTERPOL Red Notices and Diffusions. Our services include:
1. INTERPOL Data Access Requests
Legal requests to determine whether personal data or a Red Notice exists within INTERPOL’s databases. Not all Red Notices are publicly available, and therefore, an Access Request is, in most cases, a crucial first step.
Strategic submissions to the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files where an INTERPOL Notice is politically motivated, militarily or religiously linked, abusive, or violates INTERPOL’s legal framework.
3. INTERPOL Pre-emptive Requests
Strategic legal representation in submitting pre-emptive requests to the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files to proactively protect clients from the potential misuse of INTERPOL systems before any Red Notice or alert is issued. This preventive defence places the General Secretariat on notice of possible rule violations and strengthens any future request for access, correction, or deletion of data.
What is an INTERPOL Red Notice?
An INTERPOL Red Notice is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person, pending extradition or similar legal action. It is not an international arrest warrant, and INTERPOL itself has no power to order arrests. Each country decides independently whether and how to act.
1. NCB’s Request
An INTERPOL member country’s National Central Bureau (“NCB”) submits a request to INTERPOL based on a national arrest warrant.
2. INTERPOL Review
INTERPOL reviews the request to ensure compliance with its Constitution and internal rules.
3. Publication
If approved, the Red Notice is published and circulated to INTERPOL member countries.
4. National Response
Each country decides independently whether to act on the Red Notice in accordance with national law.
If you have strong grounds to believe that your data is in INTERPOL’s database, you have the right to submit an Access Request to the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (“CCF”). Additionally, you have the right to request the Deletion of a Red Notice if its circulation is in violation of INTERPOL’s framework.
- INTERPOL Red Notices are international arrest warrants.
- INTERPOL itself enforces arrests or prosecutes crimes.
- Red Notices are automatically deleted after 5 years.
- If you do not appear on the public INTERPOL website, you are safe.
- A Red Notice means a person is guilty.
- Only criminals appear in INTERPOL notices.
- Once detained on a Red Notice, there’s no defence.
- INTERPOL submissions only require criminal law knowledge.
- If a Red Notice has been blocked, it means that it is deleted.
- A Red Notice automatically leads to extradition.
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Feb
This article forms part of the series "Interpol Red Notices: An Anatomy of Power" published in the International Enforcement Law Reporter Blog on 12 February 2026. An INTERPOL Red Notice is one of the most serious international enforcement measures a person can face. Although technically described as a request to locate and provisionally arrest an …
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Feb
Can you find an INTERPOL Red Notice with one click? Most Red Notices and all Diffusions are private. Understand the risks, the legal reality, and your right to challenge unlawful INTERPOL alerts.
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Jan
This post refers to the BBC´s article published on 26 January 2026, entitled "Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals", Available at https://bbc.com/news/articles/c20gg729y1yo. The misuse of INTERPOL’s Red Notice system is neither new nor anomalous. It is a recurring structural problem that continues to undermine the credibility of international police cooperation. …
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Jan
Can I Check if an INTERPOL Red Notice Exists? There is no public database through which individuals can verify the existence of an INTERPOL Red Notice. INTERPOL publishes only a limited number of notices on its website. Verification is governed by INTERPOL’s internal rules, data protection standards, and national law enforcement practices, and may …
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Jan
What is a "Blocked" Red Notice? A blocked INTERPOL notice is not the same as a deleted notice. This distinction is frequently misunderstood and, in high-stakes cases, the consequences of that misunderstanding can be severe. In exceptional situations, the INTERPOL General Secretariat ("IPSG") may intervene to temporarily block a Red Notice or diffusion while the …
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