The French Mireille Ballestrazzi first woman head of Interpol

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FRANCE DESK: For the first time, the international police cooperation Interpol will be chaired by a woman, Mireille French Ballestrazzi. It is one of the few women who attained high office in the police.

She is the first woman to chair Interpol . Consecration to Mireille Ballestrazzi, 58, who was until now the number two judicial police in Paris. “I’m happy of course trust that was given to me,” she said on RTL radio, adding that she was at the same time “proud for women because we can not ignore that it necessarily impacts and proud to France. ” She was elected Thursday, November 8th for a term of four years by the 190 members in general meeting in Rome. Sole bidder, his candidacy has emerged over the months.

It has almost become a habit for the specialist police to break the male monopoly in the French police. At the age of 20 years, the Bachelor of Arts degree in classics and ancient languages of mastery, decides to step into this world through the manly contest Police Commissioner, who has just opened to women. In 1975, she became police commissioner and is illustrated throughout his career as one of the first women have held senior positions in the police.

In 1978, Mireille Ballestrazzi began his career by leading a group of Repression of Banditry in Bordeaux, before officiating as the patroness of the antenna police Val d’Oise. Appointed Divisional Commissioner in 1991, two years later became the first woman to head the police in Corsica , a position highly sensitive given the nationalist context of the time. She then ordered the service of the French judicial police in charge of the repression of economic and financial crime. In 2010, “Dear Commissioner” – as it is presented in his book published in 1999 – has been elevated to the rank of Inspector General of Police while attending the Executive Committee of Interpol.

“It is a credit to the police”

Already at that time, the mother acknowledged that few women in the international organization. “It is in the police community, as in others, they are least represented,” she explained in an interview with The Associated Press. “But I would not go as far as to say that there is a certain feminine approach to police work. I am primarily as an operational. And I feel no suspicion from colleagues, regardless their country of origin. “

During a visit to Rome Monday, November 4th, the French Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls painted a glowing portrait of Mireille Ballestrazzi. “This is a great police and this is the first time a woman will be president of Interpol, even if I do not want to reduce it to being a woman,” he said. “She is one of those women who do honor to the French police […]. Knows she records organized crime, new forms of violence and how to address them. It also established important relationships in national and international level, “he added.

France had presided over the largest international police organization based in Lyon, since the appointment of Prefect Ivan Barbot in 1988. However, the crucial post of the secretary general, a position currently held by American Ronald Noble, who makes his third term.

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