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In 1914, the princes of Monaco Albert I was robbed. And the thieves, having carried away a box with family jewels from his palace, fled abroad. In the same year, the prince initiated the convening of the International Congress of Criminal Police in order to call cooperation with the police authorities of other countries, which included 24 states. The agenda included the following items: The international search for criminals, the unification of the extradition procedure, the creation of an international data bank for saving criminal information, the basic principles of international police cooperation were also acclaimed. The idea of creating an international commission of criminal police and an organization designed to ensure the interaction of law enforcement officers from different countries in the fight against crime were also, stated at the congress. The First World War hindered the execution of this project. Only in 1923, the Second International Criminal Police Congress was held in Vienna, convened on the initiative of the chief of the Austrian and Vienna police, Johann Schober, and the International Criminal Police Commission was established with headquarters in Vienna. The organization was created to fight international criminals. Schober became its first president.

September 7, 1923 is considered the date of the creation of the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO).

It should be noted, that formally the Commission continued its activities during the Second World War. In the 1930s, specialized departments were created in the structure of Interpol to combat currency counterfeiting, with a world database of criminals. In 1935, the organization began international radio broadcasting. Since 1938, it was headed by the Austrian Otto Steinhäusl. According to the statute, the chairman of the Commission was the head of the police of the host country, which was originally Austria. In the following years, the Interpol was headed by representatives of Nazi Germany. Since 1938, Nazi Germany (since the Anschluss – the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany), the headquarters of Interpol was moved to Berlin, and the presidents of this organization were SS generals Reinhard Heydrich (1940—1942), the second person after Himmler in German police hierarchy which was liquidated in Prague in 1942 by British special forces agents. He was replaced by SS man Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who was punished capitally by the verdict of the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. And the SS man Arthur Nebe was the director from 1938 to 1944, and from 1942 to 1943 the president of Interpol ((In 1945 he was executed for conspiracy against Arnold Hitler) and Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1943—1945).