Kim Jong Yang (; born 30 October 1961) is a South Korean police officer and former President of
Interpol
The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and cri ...
.
Prior to his Interpol career, Kim was Commissioner of
Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, the law enforcement agency for South Korea's most populous
province
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.
As a police chief, Kim took part in efforts to spread South Korean policing strategies to other nations, including the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
, through financial assistance and training programs.
In 2015 Kim was elected as Interpol's vice-president for Asia.
Following the arrest and detainment of Interpol President
Meng Hongwei
Meng Hongwei (; born November 1953) is a former Chinese politician and police officer who was the president of Interpol from 2016 to 2018. He also served as vice-minister of Public Security in China from 2004 to 2018. Meng purportedly resigned in ...
in China, Kim took on the role of Acting President.
Although Interpol Vice-President and
Russian interior ministry official
Alexander Prokopchuk
Alexander Vasilyevich Prokopchuk (russian: Александр Васильевич Прокопчук; 18 November 1961) is a Russian employee of the internal affairs agencies, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation ...
had been widely tipped to be Meng's successor, at a meeting in Dubai on 18–21 November 2018 Kim was elected to serve the remaining two years of Meng's term.
[ Prokopchuk's candidacy had been opposed by Western nations, which had objected to the Russian government's abuses of Interpol ]red notice
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s to target dissident
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s and political opponents.[
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References
1961 births
Living people
Interpol officials
People from Changwon
Korea University alumni
Seoul National University alumni
Dongguk University alumni
South Korean police officers
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