CBI special director Praveen Sinha joins Interpol committee

CBI special director Praveen Sinha joins Interpol committee

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: November 26 2021

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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.

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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.

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