ZAMBIA’S Deputy Commissioner of Police Mubita Nawa has lost his bid to become new INTERPOL Secretary General. This was after Brazil’s Valdecy Urquiza emerged first in the voting, leading to INTERPOL’s Executive Committee proposing him to be the next candidate for the top job. The candidacy of Urquiza will be submitted to INTERPOL’s supreme governing body, the General Assembly, for endorsement during its meeting in Glasgow, United Kingdom. If endorsed by a majority of INTERPOL’s 196 member countries, he will assume office at the end of the term of the current Secretary General, Jürgen Stock of Germany, on November 7, 2024. INTERPOL President Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi expressed delight at the selection of Urquiza as candidate to be the next Secretary...

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