Trust
Code of ethics
In this field, ethics are not decoration for an «about us» page. The people who come here are vulnerable: frightened, restricted in movement, and often ready to agree to anything. Such an audience is easy to exploit.
Below is what we do not do, and why. These rules cost us money, which is precisely why they mean something.
Lawful methods only
We work inside legal procedures: a CCF request, an appeal, a defence in extradition proceedings, an asylum application. We do not offer or discuss informal channels, «connections» inside agencies, purchased decisions or any way around the procedure. This is not caution but arithmetic: an informal scheme, even when it works once, permanently worsens a person's position — it creates a new offence and new people who know about them.
No guaranteed outcomes
A CCF request is decided by an independent body; extradition is decided by another country's court. Nobody working with these procedures can promise an outcome, and such a promise is itself a mark of bad faith. We talk about probabilities and what affects them, and we decline work where someone expects a guarantee from us.
The assessment does not bend to the client's wishes
If the situation plainly gives no cause for concern, we say so, even when the person has already resolved to pay. If it is worse than they hoped, we say that too, without softening. An analysis that adapts to expectations is worth nothing — except the time lost before the position becomes irreversible.
We state the limits of the work
Before discussing price. A person should know what is included, what is not, and at which point somebody else will be needed — a local lawyer, an interpreter, a specialist in a particular jurisdiction. Naming the boundary in advance is easier than explaining afterwards why it was not crossed.
No pressure, no manufactured urgency
We do not hurry a decision with artificial deadlines, do not write again after a refusal, and do not use fear as a sales argument. The subject is frightening enough on its own; adding pressure means obstructing someone's thinking exactly when thinking matters most. If you said no, the conversation is over, and we do not return to it under a new pretext.
Confidentiality and its honest limits
We do not disclose enquiries or discuss them with third parties. At the same time we say plainly where the technical boundary runs: correspondence goes through messengers, and therefore through their servers. We do not claim the channel is absolutely secure — instead we explain what is and is not worth writing in a first message.
Conflict of interest
We do not take a case if we already act for another side of the same conflict, or if we hold an interest capable of affecting the assessment. If a conflict surfaces mid-way, we disclose it and stop, rather than finishing «since we have started».
Other people's money and other people's expectations
If a relative or an employer is paying, that gives the payer no right to the content of the conversation. We discuss the case with the person whose case it is and disclose details only to them. This rule upsets somebody regularly and is not open to discussion.
We do not represent INTERPOL
INTERPOL PROTECTION is an independent platform. We are not INTERPOL, are not part of its structure, have no access to its databases, and cannot view or delete anything in them directly. Anyone offering to «check the database» or «remove it for a fixed fee» either does not understand the procedure or is deliberately misleading you.