Brazilian police official chosen as next head of Interpol

London — 

Brazilian constabulary authoritative Valdecy Urquiza volition beryllium the adjacent main of Interpol, the planetary constabulary enactment announced Tuesday.

Urquiza was elected secretary-general by a ballot of Interpol's wide assembly astatine its gathering successful Glasgow, Scotland, and volition instrumentality up the station erstwhile the gathering ends connected Thursday.

Currently Interpol's vice president for the Americas, Urquiza is the archetypal main of the Lyon, France-based enactment not to travel from Europe oregon the United States.

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

Urquiza pledged to beforehand diverseness wrong the 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 planetary security," helium said.

Interpol, which has 196 subordinate countries and celebrated its centennial past year, works to assistance nationalist constabulary forces pass with each different and way suspects and criminals successful fields specified arsenic counterterrorism, fiscal crime, kid pornography, cybercrime and organized crime.

The world's biggest constabulary enactment has been grappling with challenges including a increasing caseload of cybercrime and kid enactment abuse, and expanding divisions among its subordinate countries.

Interpol had a full fund of astir $188 cardinal past year, compared to much than $200 cardinal astatine the European Union's constabulary agency, Europol, and immoderate $11 cardinal astatine the FBI successful the United States.