Interpol has elected French police commissioner Mireille Balestrazzi as president. She is the first woman to be elected as Interpol chief, the Voice of Russia reported.
Balestrazzi, 58, became a police commissioner in France in 1975 and worked as a vice-president for Europe on Interpol's executive committee.
She is also known as a director of judicial police in Corsica in the 1990s.