Valdecy Urquiza, Interpol’s vice president for the Americas and head of international cooperation at the Brazilian federal police, poses for a portrait at the Interpol General Assembly in Glasgow, Scotland,

Valdecy Urquiza, a Federal Police Commissioner from Brazil, has been elected as INTERPOL's new Secretary General, marking a historic first for a Brazilian leader in the global south. Urquiza, who will take over from Jurgen Stock on 7 November,

Valdecy Urquiza's election marks the first time the global policing agency will be led by someone outside Europe or the U.S.

Valdecy Urquiza willtake over from the incumbent, Jurgen Stock, who has been at the helm of the world’s largest police organisation for the past 10 years, on November 7