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The International Wizarding Police[1] or I.W.P.[2] was presumably a form of international law enforcement agency involved with MACUSA and the British Ministry of Magic.

History[]

In 1926, the I.W.P. took part in the manhunt for the Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, working with the Ministry of Magic.

In 1932, a wanted poster for Grindelwald asked people to contact the International Wizarding Police if they had any information or sightings to report of the wizard. They were to be contacted at once by owl if anyone caught Grindelwald.[3]

Behind the scenes[]

  • It is possible that the I.W.P. is connected to the International Confederation of Wizards.
    • If this is indeed the case, the I.W.P. might be roughly the magical equivalent to the United Nations Police in the real world, meaning that its main job would be to help track down and detain internationally wanted wizarding criminals, and support member countries in conflicts of a certain scale, such as the Global wizarding war.
    • The I.C.W. Department of Aurors and the Head of Incarceration were most likely part of, or else affiliated with, the I.W.P.
  • The choice of naming the organisation "police" is paradoxical, given how it outright contradicts canon lore of the Harry Potter franchise, in which Ministry of Magic official Amos Diggory is unfamiliar with the term "policeman", which is very odd if there are a law enforcement task force handling large-scale issues of the wizarding world, such as the fight against Grindelwald and his army. One possible explanation is that the I.W.P. had changed its name by the time Diggory began working at the Ministry. Or it could simply be extinct by that point, or else have been replaced by a different organisation.

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