Passport and travel document security will be “fundamental to avoiding the collapse of global security over the next decade...

By Mark Tarallo

► Passport and travel document security will be “fundamental to avoiding the collapse of global security over the next decade,”Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said at a United Nations meeting on Friday. Noble warned that ''stolen and lost travel documents are still in the hands of international terrorists,” and at least 400 million out of the 1.2 billion international passengers in 2013 were not screened against Interpol’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database, which holds more than 40 million records. The Interpol Chief’s remarks came while speaking at a high-level open briefing before the UN’s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and its Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED). "The time to act is now. The time is now for the United Nations, for the Counter-Terrorism Committee and for its Executive Directorate to join Interpol and make it a global priority to close this security gap,” Noble said.

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