NCJ Number
88574
Journal
Revue de la police nationale Issue: 118 Dated: (November 1982) Pages: 26-31
Date Published
1982
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This article reviews the highlights of the sixth annual seminar of the International Police Institute, held in Paris, France, between May 4th and 14th, 1982, and attended by top police and Government officials of 60 countries. The theme of the meeting was the democratic response to international terrorism.
Abstract
Briefly summarized is the essential content of talks delivered by the principal speakers, who called for international cooperation in combatting terrorism, analyzed the nature and origins of various political motivations for terrorist activity, and outlined measures by which democratic governments should respond to the terrorist menance. It is emphasized that terrorism is alien to the conception of democracy and that democracies must confront terrorism at two levels: first, by each country internally against its own violent revolutionaries (e.g., Baader in Germany, Red Brigades in Italy, etc.) and secondly by joint cooperation among countries to foreign sites as a form of war that must be combatted with police and if necessary, military force. The internationalization of terrorism is deemed a great danger which must be faced through juridical and technological cooperation among nations, following the example of the European Convention on the Repression of Terrorism and practicing the exchange of scientific and technological expertise and equipment to promote a coordinated antiterrorist stance. Photographs and a list of 17 prominent participants are given.