US EditionFrench Police Controller Named Interpol President
Lucas Philippe won with 84 votes to succeed Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi, who faced European judicial complaints, as Interpol president in a symbolic four-year term.
- On Thursday, November 27, Lucas Philippe was elected head of Interpol at its 93rd assembly in Morocco, winning 84 votes over Mustafa Serkan Sabanca and succeeding Emirati Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi.
- The Interpol presidency rotates every four years and is largely symbolic, while Brazilian Valdecy Urquiza, elected November 2024, runs day-to-day operations from Interpol headquarters, Lyon, France.
- Trailing candidates included Anne-Marie Nainda, Namibian candidate, and Demelash Gebremichael Weldeyes, Ethiopian candidate, who received 12 and eight votes respectively.
- Past scandals include the case of Meng Hongwei, former Interpol president, who disappeared from Lyon, France, and was sentenced in China to 13 and a half years in prison in 2020.
- Philippe pledged to consolidate Interpol's role as a global reference, stating, `My objective is clear: to consolidate the role of the organisation as a global reference for collective security`.
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Philippe Lucas became the third Frenchman to lead Interpol, whose headquarters are in Lyon. An honorary post, however, he wants to consolidate the role of the organization as a global reference for collective security.
He is the third Frenchman to be elected to the head of Interpol. He is 53 years old and is a former judicial police officer who has been elected by the criminal brigade. He hopes to "consolidate the role of the organisation as a global reference for collective security". - Who is Lucas Philippe, the Frenchman elected president of Interpol? (Police, justice and other facts).
At the age of 53, general controller Lucas Philippe, who has been in the police force for some 30 years, was elected today in Marrakech for a four-year term in the international organization.
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