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CBI special director Praveen Sinha joins Interpol committee

Category : Appointment/Resignation
Published on: November 26 2021 Share on facebook

  • 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.
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