AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett will urge police chiefs across the world to help stop illicit tobacco trafficking to Australia and will request more information sharing on Nazi supporters and other groups undermining social cohesion.
Commissioner Barrett, who will attend the 93rd INTERPOL General Assembly in Morocco this week, will meet with more than 20 law enforcement heads of agency to ask for greater cooperation in disrupting offshore criminals targeting Australia.
And in a bid to better protect Australia and the Pacific region, Commissioner Barrett will reaffirm the AFP's ongoing financial support for INTERPOL Project Blue Pacific, which enables increased information sharing - including access to Red Notices and other notices issued by INTERPOL - for Pacific Island law enforcement agencies.
Commissioner Barrett said INTERPOL was a crucial global policing organisation that helped keep Australia safe.
"INTERPOL is an incredibly important strand in our national security framework, and it ensures the AFP is connected to the world, which is being tested by grey zone warfare and outright aggression,'' Commissioner Barrett said.
"As others step out of multinational policing arrangements, the AFP will step up to ensure integrity and transparency remains in these forums."
Commissioner Barrett said she would ask police chiefs in the Middle East and Asia to help crack down on the illicit tobacco trafficking, which was not only fuelling criminal ecosystems in Australia but also bank rolling other illegal activities committed by organised crime.
"The bilaterial meetings and having sideline exchanges at these sessions are invaluable, and I will be asking relevant partners to collaborate with the AFP more often and take symbiotic action in the interests of our countries.
"Under my Commissionership, the AFP will supercharge our work offshore and that means we will take more deliberate and active actions in how we use our reach and partners.
"The AFP is permanently posted in more than 30 countries and that gives us the ability to work closely with offshore operational agencies to better defend Australia's interests, and that means disrupting threats before they reach our borders.
"I will also ask relevant partners to share more information about hate groups, including Nazi supporters, and to provide advice from their lessons learned over the years.
"Safeguarding Australia's social cohesion is a key priority, and the AFP will disrupt and act against offenders who damage our social fabric and create hatred, division and violence targeted at marginalised communities.
"Australia's insatiable appetite for dangerous and addictive illicit commodities, even during years of cost-of-living pressures, continues to create significant pressure in our suburbs.
"And it is unfortunate that to meet this demand, organised crime is using the Pacific as a transit point to get to Australia.
"This is impacting on the health of Pacific Island communities and attracting organised crime within the region.
"The AFP will stand side-by-side with Pacific police organisations to combat organised crime and that includes ensuring they have access to international databases that can help keep criminals out of their countries and identify and remove offenders."
Commissioner Barrett will participate in a panel on women in policing with the Executive Director of Europol Catherine De Bolle, Ghana Police Service Director-General Lydia Yaako Donkor, and Head of the Panamanian National Central Bureau Victor Manuel Garcia Giron.
The AFP will sign Memorandums of Understanding with Maldives Police Service, the UK National Crime Authority, the Netherlands Police and Sri Lanka Police to strengthen cooperation in combating transnational crime.
Commissioner Barrett will meet with INTERPOL Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza and heads of agencies from Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group, Chilean Investigative Police, Colombia National Police, EUROPOL, the Police Nationale (France), German Federal Criminal Police Office, Ghana Police Service, Hong Kong Police Force, India's Central Bureau of Investigation, National Police Agency of Japan, Kenya National Police Service, Maldives Police Service, Republic of North Macedonia Bureau for Public Security, the Royal Malaysia Police, Singapore Police Force, Sri Lanka Police, Public Security of Tunisia and a number of Pacific Island Police Chiefs.
More than 160 countries and their police chiefs will attend this year's session.
Commissioner Barrett said it was important Australia and the region had a clear focus on disrupting and targeting those who harmed vulnerable communities, including children.
To protect youth, the AFP is deliberately focused on targeting decentralised online crime networks glorifying crime online, sextortion, youth radicalisation and online child exploitation.
INTERPOL Green Notices are circulated to warn countries about offenders who have serious criminal histories and may travel and reoffend in other jurisdictions. Australia is the third highest contributor of Green Notices in the world, with the majority relating to convicted child sex offenders.
During the four-day program, the AFP will also lend its support to the Republic of Korea in its plans to eradicate transnational scam centres and will continue to work with Italy and other partners on trialling Silver Notices that trace and recover criminal assets across the world.
As of October 2025, the AFP with INTERPOL, has assessed 119 Silver Notices from 28 countries, and has identified more than $55 million in assets and transactions that have tracked through Australia. The AFP recently distributed its first Silver Notice targeting assets of a person accused of dealing in illicit tobacco products.
The Australian INTERPOL National Central Bureau is operated by the AFP in Canberra.
