New members elected to INTERPOL Executive Committee

SINGAPORE, Suara Indonesia News – Delegates at the 78th INTERPOL General Assembly have elected seven new members to the Executive Committee.

The head of the Argentine Federal Police, General Commissioner Nestor Jorge Vallecca, is the new Vice President for the Americas, with William Elliott, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Jorge Barbosa Pontes of the Brazilian Federal Police elected as delegates for the Americas.

Deputy Commissioner of Nigerian Police Adamu Mohammed has been elected as delegate for Africa and Spain’s Comisario Francisco Gil Montero as delegate for Europe.Two delegates for Asia were also elected, Tariq Khosa, Director General of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency and Nobuyuki Kawai, Director of the International Organized Crime Office of Japan’s National Police Agency.

The Executive Committee, which meets three times a year, has 13 members in total, comprising the President, three vice-presidents and nine delegates representing the organization’s four regions – Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe.