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# American Police Community

## Comunidad de Policías de América - Ameripol

Last modified: 2026-04-11 by zachary harden
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image by Fred Drews, 08 June 2015

- Overview
- The Flag
- The Emblem
- Previously Reported Flag
- International Anti-Narcotics Network

See also:

- International Organizations

## Overview

The American Police Community or Ameripol (Comunidad de Policías de América or Ameripol) is a recently created continental police organization with the mission of fighting drugs".
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameripol
AMERIPOL was established during the III Encuentro de Directores, Comandantes y Jefes de Policías de Latinoamérica y El Caribe (Third Summit of Latin American Directors, Commanders and Chiefs of Police) held in Bogota from November 12 to 15, 2007.
Source: http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/SERVICIOS_AL_CIUDADANO/Enlaces_interes/AMERIPOL
Its organizational chart is as follows:
- Consejo de Directores, Comandantes, Jefes y Comisionados de los cuerpos de Policía y/o instituciones homólogas de América (Council of Directors)
- Presidencia (Presidency)
- Secretaría Ejecutiva (Executive Secretariat). The Secretaría Ejecutiva (Executive Secretariat) was inaugurated on April 17, 2008 and it's located in Bogotá, Colombia
- Unidades de Coordinación (Coordination Units)
- Unidades Nacionales (National Units)
Sources:
https://www.comunidadameripol.org/comunidad_ameripol/15/nuestra-organizacion.html (broken link)
http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/SERVICIOS_AL_CIUDADANO/Enlaces_interes/AMERIPOL/ORGANIZACION (Full organizational chart and more thorough information on the organization)
The Statute of the creation of the organization can be searched here: Spanish English French Portuguese.
The member States are: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Observer status:
BKA (Bundeskriminalamt) (Germany)
CLACIP (Comunidad Latinoamérica y del Caribe de Inteligencia Policial)
Cuerpo de Policía Nacional(Spain)
DEA (United States)
EUROPOL
Guardia Civil (Spain)
Guardia di Finaza (Italy)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security (OAS)
Esteban Rivera, 31 May 2011

## The Flag

The flag of AMERIPOL is the coat of arms on a light blue horizontal flag, seen here: http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/31828939.JPG
Image of desktop flag of Ameripol. Picture taken on March 10, 2010 at the Colombian Police Historical Museum in Bogotá.
For additional information please see:
Ameripol (official website): http://www.comunidadameripol.org/ (broken link)
http://oasportal.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/SERVICIOS_AL_CIUDADANO/Enlaces_interes/AMERIPOL
(Information on AMERIPOL from the Colombian Police website)
Esteban Rivera, 31 May 2011

New flag and coat of arms adopted in 2013. Comunidad de Policías de América.
Fred Drews, 08 June 2015

## The Emblem

image by Fred Drews, 08 June 2015

## Previously Reported Flag

image by Zoltan Horvath, 28 September 2013

## International Anti-Narcotics Network

On April 4, 2025 the "VI encuentro de analistas de la Red Internacional Antinarcóticos (RIAN)" (English: VI meeting of analysts of the International Anti-Narcotics Network (RIAN) was held in Barranquilla, Colombia, and they had their own flag. The logo seems to include the flags of cooperating countries for the event.
Esteban Rivera, 23 February 2026

I was able to find a close up of the logo used on the flag and it seems to match this challenge coin on Instagram.
Zachary Harden, 20 March 2026

That's a nice find. Indeed, when looking closely the logo, which in this case is portrayed in the logo, features several elements that are worth mentioning: - The letter "D" inside a crosshair, indicating the initial for "Drugs" as a target. - The sword and scales , the universal symbol for rule of law - The lantern plus eight stars, the universal symbol for intelligence with perhaps eight permanent ir ad hoc members Still, what I cannot fully comprehend is the inscription below reading "Los Caimanes" (English: The Caimans), which may be a reference to any member of the antinarcotics as this other challenge coin of the Colombia Antinarcotics Police (formally designated - Direcci n Antinarc ticos (DIRAN, Antinarcotics Directorate) suggests: ebay.
Esteban Rivera, 20 March 2026