INTERNATIONAL CRIME CONTROL PRESENTS MANY PROBLEMS FOR POLICE ORGANIZATIONS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY IN EUROPE. WITH THE PROXIMITY OF INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES, CRIMINALS MAY EASILY FLEE FROM ONE NATION TO ANOTHER. DIFFERENT COUNTRIES HAVE DIFFERENT LAWS, AND SOME MAY NOT WANT TO ENFORCE THE LAWS OR GET INVOLVED IN THE INTERNAL POLICE AFFAIRS OF ANOTHER COUNTRY. FOR THESE REASONS, POLICY ON INTERNATIONAL EXTRADITION AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURES IS DIFFICULT TO FORMULATE. LAWS FROM THE GERMAN BASIC LAW (CONSTITUTION) ARE USED AS SOURCES OF SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL TREATIES. SOME BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN GERMANY AND OTHER COUNTRIES ARE CITED. PRIOR TO WORLD WAR I, EUROPEANS WERE BECOMING MORE CONSCIOUS OF THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE AREA OF EXTRADITION AND POLICING. THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE TOWARD THIS WAS AN INTERNATIONAL POLICE CONFERENCE IN MONACO IN 1914. IN 1923, A DECISIVE BREAKTHROUGH WAS MADE WITH THE FOUNDATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE COMMISSION, BUT THE POWER OF THIS COMMISSION WAS MISUSED BY THE NAZI REGIME DURING WORLD WAR II. AFTER THE WAR, THE COMMISSION WAS REESTABLISHED AND PROGRESSED RAPIDLY TO THE FOUNDATION OF INTERPOL IN 1956. THE GERMAN FEDERAL BUREAU OF CRIMINAL AFFAIRS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1956 TO CONSOLIDATE CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AND ALSO TO SERVE AS THE GERMAN OFFICE OF INTERPOL. THE FRAMEWORK, LEGAL STATUS, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, GOALS AND PRINCIPLES, AND STATUTES AND ARTICLES OF INTERPOL ARE PROVIDED. THE ORGANIZATION'S GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND WORKINGS ARE DETAILED. APPENDIXES INCLUDE EXCERPTS FROM VARIOUS LAWS AND STATUTES, THE CONSTITUTION OF INTERPOL, A DIRECTORY OF MEMBER COUNTRIES, AND SAMPLE CRIMINAL RECORDS AND WANTED LISTS USED BY INTERPOL. A BIBLIOGRAPHY IS PROVIDED. --IN GERMAN. (BAC)