CBI special director Praveen Sinha joins Interpol committee

• India's Praveen Sinha, special director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has been elected as an Asian delegate to the International Criminal Police Organization's executive body (Interpol).
• Sinha is an IPS officer from Gujarat's 1988 batch. After then-CBI director Rishi Kumar Shukla stepped down in February, Sinha was named interim director until Subodh Jaiswal was named permanent director in May.
• He has served in the CBI twice in the last two decades.
• Interpol is a critical organisation for combating the rising threat of transnational organised crime, terrorism, and cybercrime.

Important Takeaways

About INTERPOL

• INTERPOL: International Criminal Police Organization
• Headquarters: Lyon, France
• Founder: Johannes Schober
• Founded: 7 September 1923
• Total Number of Member: 195
• Aim: Interpol's mission is to promote the broadest possible mutual assistance among criminal police forces, as well as to construct and develop organisations that will help prevent and combat international crime.