 In collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States and with funding by the European Union, the first National Electronic Police Information System for West African countries has been launched in Ghana by Interpol. The West African Police Information System, or WAPIS for short, facilitates the collection, centralization, management, sharing, and analysis of police information from national law enforcement agencies. Attended by senior officials from Benin, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, the Economic Community of West African States, the European Union, and Interpol, the launch ceremony was an opportunity to take stock of the WAPIS program's achievements to date. At national level, the WAPIS program enables participating countries to convert existing paper-based police data to a digital format so it can be inserted, together with new police data, into the national WAPIS system and easily shared among law enforcement agencies.