The watchdog's own scoreboard.
INTERPOL's files are policed by the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL's Files — the CCF — a small independent body that publishes an annual account of its work. This page keeps those numbers — and INTERPOL's own notice statistics, which run a year ahead of the Commission's — maintained, dated, and sourced. Read plainly, they tell a story INTERPOL rarely says out loud.
Last verified · 10 October 2026 · INTERPOL notice statistics 2025 · CCF Annual Activity Report 2024What INTERPOL itself reports for 2025.
INTERPOL publishes its notice statistics a year ahead of the Commission. The 2025 figures are INTERPOL's own, as published in December 2025. The Commission's account of 2025 follows at the General Assembly in November 2026, and will be added here when it appears.
Red Notices published in 2025 — up 26% on 2024, and the most in INTERPOL's history
Red Notices valid on 31 December 2025, of 141,082 valid notices of every colour
Red Notices and diffusions refused or cancelled for non-compliance in 2025 — a third record year running
of them stopped on human-rights or political grounds, Articles 2 and 3 — up from 305 in 2024
Red Notices published, by year
Flat for a decade, then two leaps: a 27% rise in 2024 and 26% in 2025.
Refused or cancelled for non-compliance, by year
Red Notices and diffusions stopped by INTERPOL's own task force — with the number refused on Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution beneath each year.
Three records in one year: more Red Notices entering the system than ever, more valid notices in circulation than ever — and more being refused or cancelled by INTERPOL's own front-door filter than ever, with the human-rights and political grounds nearly doubling. Meanwhile the quieter alert is fading: Red diffusions circulated have fallen every year since 2019, from 15,697 to 10,123 in 2025.
Source: INTERPOL notice statistics, December 2025 (interpol.int). INTERPOL's own caveat: refusal and cancellation figures "cannot be compared to, or used as a percentage of, the total number of published and circulated notices and diffusions", and "do not include decisions made by the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL's Files".
The last year the watchdog has reported.
admissible requests reached the CCF in 2024 — the most in its history
of everything asked of the watchdog was a request to delete data
of the data the CCF examined in 2024 failed INTERPOL's own rules
growth in requests since the Commission's first session in 1986
The queue keeps growing.
Requests to the CCF, by year
Five requests were considered at the Commission's first session in 1986. In 2024 it logged 2,586 admissible requests — on a like-for-like basis, 4% more than 2023 and the highest ever.
† 2024 counts admissible requests only, under the CCF's new methodology; earlier bars show requests received as reported at the time. * 2021–22 derived from the CCF's own stated growth rates. Like-for-like, the CCF states 2024 was its highest year on record.
What people ask the watchdog for
Deletion is the single biggest demand on the CCF — ahead of simply finding out what INTERPOL holds.
- Deletion requests45%
- Access requests37%
- Applications for revision18%
The targets vs the reality
The CCF's Statute gives it four months for access requests and nine for deletion decisions. In 2024, the clock lost — badly on access.
Grey: decided within target · Red: overran
The Commission itself expects delays to worsen before new resources bite
When the data is tested, it usually fails.
Share of examined data found compliant with INTERPOL's rules
Compliance findings are rising — partly, the Commission's Chair notes, because source countries respond to inquiries more often than they used to.
Read it the other way: in 2024, 60% of the data the watchdog examined failed INTERPOL's own rules. Most challenged data does not survive scrutiny.
Six conclusions, in plain language.
Deletion is the #1 thing people ask for.
Nearly half of everything the CCF received in 2024 was a request to erase data — ahead of access and revision combined only by discipline of counting.
CCF Annual Report 2024Sometimes the challenge alone wins.
In 164 deletion requests in 2024, the source country or the General Secretariat deleted the data before the Commission even ruled.
CCF Annual Report 2024It caught a scheme selling "guaranteed" deletions.
The Commission itself reported detecting an international corruption scheme in 2023–24 — proof that anyone guaranteeing an outcome is telling you something about themselves.
CCF Annual Reports 2023–24The watchdog expects to get slower first.
Its Chair told INTERPOL's 2025 General Assembly that workload and delays remain the highest priority — and that delays were expected to worsen before improving.
93rd General Assembly, 2025A small team stands behind the remedy.
The Commission's Secretariat numbered nineteen full-time staff in 2024 against a record global caseload — a structural fact behind every waiting time on this page.
CCF Annual Report 2024Most notices are invisible.
Only a fraction of Red Notices are ever published on INTERPOL's website — roughly one in nine, on the most recent public figures — and diffusions never appear at all.
INTERPOL published figures, 2022- CCF Annual Activity Report 2024 (PDF)
- CCF Annual Activity Report 2023 (PDF)
- All CCF reports, 2002–2024 — About the CCF, interpol.int
- Address of the CCF Chairperson to the 93rd INTERPOL General Assembly (2025), as published by INTERPOL
- INTERPOL notice statistics, December 2025 — notices published 2015–2025, valid notices at 31 December 2025, diffusions circulated (About Notices, interpol.int)
- INTERPOL notice statistics, December 2025 — refusals and cancellations by ground, 2017–2025 (Compliance and review, interpol.int)
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