2024-06-26 12:59:35
Interpol’s govt committee has chosen a police officer from a creating nation to guide the worldwide police company for the primary time. It will likely be Valdesi Urquiza from Brazil, Reuters reported.
Urquiza, aged 43, presently heads worldwide cooperation at Brazil’s federal police and can succeed Jürgen Inventory of Germany as head of Interpol from 2025 to 2030.
A graduate of the FBI’s nationwide academy within the US state of Virginia, Urquiza obtained eight votes to 2 for British candidate Stephen Kavanagh and one for Zambia’s Mubita Naua.
His choice should be ratified by Interpol’s basic meeting in November in Glasgow, the Brazilian authorities stated in a press release. The Meeting has at all times adopted the suggestions of the Government Committee for the Basic Secretary.
“This can be a recognition of Brazil’s neutrality,” Urquiza advised reporters after the election on the company’s headquarters within the French metropolis of Lyon. “Interpol can achieve so much from the range and expertise of different international locations,” he added.
Interpol is the biggest police group on the earth with 196 member international locations. Throughout its hundred-year historical past, Interpol was led by representatives of 4 European international locations and the US.
“The group dangers dropping credibility and legitimacy if it isolates itself. All international locations ought to really feel included, all areas must be served,” Urquiza stated in an interview with Reuters in February.