Brazilian police official chosen as the next head of Interpol

Brazilian constabulary charismatic Valdecy Urquiza will beryllium nan adjacent main of nan world constabulary statement Interpol

LONDON -- LONDON (AP) — Brazilian constabulary charismatic Valdecy Urquiza will beryllium nan adjacent main of Interpol, nan world constabulary statement announced Tuesday.

Urquiza was elected secretary-general by a ballot of Interpol’s wide assembly astatine its gathering successful Glasgow, Scotland, and will return up nan station erstwhile nan gathering ends connected Thursday.

Currently Interpol’s vice president for nan Americas, Urquiza is nan first main of nan Lyon, France-based statement not to travel from Europe aliases nan United States.

The Interpol secretary-general fundamentally runs nan statement connected a regular basis. Jürgen Stock of Germany, who has held nan station since 2014, is not allowed nether its rules to activity a 3rd term.

Urquiza pledged to beforehand diverseness wrong nan organization, saying ”a beardown Interpol is 1 that includes everyone.”

“When we respect and elevate divers perspectives, we get a clearer, much broad attack to world security,” he said.

Interpol, which has 196 personnel countries and celebrated its centennial past year, useful to thief nationalist constabulary forces pass pinch each different and way suspects and criminals successful fields specified arsenic counterterrorism, financial crime, kid pornography, cybercrime and organized crime.

The world’s biggest constabulary statement has been grappling pinch challenges including a increasing caseload of cybercrime and kid activity abuse, and expanding divisions among its personnel countries.

Interpol had a full fund of astir 176 cardinal euros (about $188 million) past year, compared to much than 200 cardinal euros astatine nan European Union’s constabulary agency, Europol, and immoderate $11 cardinal astatine nan FBI successful nan United States.