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American Police Community

Comunidad de Policías de América - Ameripol

image by Fred Drews, 08 June 2015

Overview
The Flag
The Emblem
Previously Reported Flag

See also:

International Organizations

Overview

The American Police Community or Ameripol (Comunidad de Policías de América or Ameripol) is a recently created continental police organization with the mission of fighting drugs".
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameripol

AMERIPOL was established during the III Encuentro de Directores, Comandantes y Jefes de Policías de Latinoamérica y El Caribe (Third Summit of Latin American Directors, Commanders and Chiefs of Police) held in Bogota from November 12 to 15, 2007.
Source: http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/SERVICIOS_AL_CIUDADANO/Enlaces_interes/AMERIPOL

Its organizational chart is as follows:
- Consejo de Directores, Comandantes, Jefes y Comisionados de los cuerpos de Policía y/o instituciones homólogas de América (Council of Directors)
- Presidencia (Presidency)
- Secretaría Ejecutiva (Executive Secretariat). The Secretaría Ejecutiva (Executive Secretariat) was inaugurated on April 17, 2008 and it's located in Bogotá, Colombia
- Unidades de Coordinación (Coordination Units)
- Unidades Nacionales (National Units)
Sources:
https://www.comunidadameripol.org/comunidad_ameripol/15/nuestra-organizacion.html (broken link)
http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/SERVICIOS_AL_CIUDADANO/Enlaces_interes/AMERIPOL/ORGANIZACION (Full organizational chart and more thorough information on the organization)

The Statute of the creation of the organization can be searched here: Spanish English French Portuguese.

The member States are: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

Observer status:
BKA (Bundeskriminalamt) (Germany)
CLACIP (Comunidad Latinoamérica y del Caribe de Inteligencia Policial)
Cuerpo de Policía Nacional(Spain)
DEA (United States)
EUROPOL
Guardia Civil (Spain)
Guardia di Finaza (Italy)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security (OAS)
Esteban Rivera, 31 May 2011

The Flag

The flag of AMERIPOL is the coat of arms on a light blue horizontal flag, seen here: http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/31828939.JPG
Image of desktop flag of Ameripol. Picture taken on March 10, 2010 at the Colombian Police Historical Museum in Bogotá.
For additional information please see:
Ameripol (official website): http://www.comunidadameripol.org/ (broken link)
http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/SERVICIOS_AL_CIUDADANO/Enlaces_interes/AMERIPOL
(Information on AMERIPOL from the Colombian Police website)
Esteban Rivera, 31 May 2011

New flag and coat of arms adopted in 2013. Comunidad de Policías de América.
Fred Drews, 08 June 2015

The Emblem

image by Fred Drews, 08 June 2015

Previously Reported Flag

image by Zoltan Horvath, 28 September 2013

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