Key facts
- Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming said geopolitics would not affect the Interpol general assembly in Hong Kong.
- Chow said transnational police cooperation was inevitable, speaking on a TV program on November 15, 2026.
- The assembly is scheduled to run from November 30 to December 3 in Hong Kong.
- Chow was asked whether the US and European countries would send representatives; the report named no confirmed delegations.
Hong Kong's commissioner of police, Joe Chow Yat-ming, said geopolitical tension would not affect the Interpol general assembly Hong Kong is due to host, and that cross-border police cooperation was inevitable, the South China Morning Post reported on November 15, 2026.
Speaking on a TV program on Sunday, Chow was asked whether the United States and European countries would send representatives to the meeting, scheduled for November 30 to December 3 in Hong Kong. The report quoted him beginning an answer on geopolitics but did not carry the rest of his response, and it gave no list of confirmed delegations.
The assembly would be the 94th for Interpol, the intergovernmental police organization, and the first held in Hong Kong. The report did not state how many member countries or delegates are expected to attend.