Interpol elects first woman president

(8 Nov 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Interpol general assembly in Rome
2. Mid of Mireille Ballestrazzi, newly elected president of Interpol
3. Mid of Ballestrazzi and French delegation
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Mireille Ballestrazzi, newly elected president of Interpol:
"We need to face new threats like cybercrime. It is all about being across all fronts that are a real threat like organised crime, human trafficking, obviously terrorism, and we must develop the means to be used by the various police services worldwide."
5. Mid of Ballestrazzi listening to session
6 SOUNDBITE (French) Mireille Ballestrazzi, newly elected president of Interpol:
"I am very proud for women, I am also proud for France, but we must not forget that I represent all the world's police forces together".
7. Wide of plenary session and delegates applauding
8. Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble and Interpol outgoing president Khoo Boon Hui embracing
9. Mid of Noble and Hui posing for cameras
10. SOUNDBITE (English), Khoo Boon Hui, outgoing Interpol president:
"This bodes well as we prepare our organisation and our members to tackle the increasingly difficult environment we face, not as individual member states but as a truly resilient and resourceful international police organisation. This is Interpol."
11. Wide of audience
12. Zoom out from from Italian delegation head Francesco Cirillo (left) handing over Interpol flag to Colombian delegate Carlos Mena Bravo
13. Mid of Ballestrazzi and Noble
14. Wide of session
STORYLINE
Interpol elected its first female president on Thursday with French police commissioner Mireille Ballestrazzi set to take control of the global crime fighting group.
Ballestrazzi, 58, is well renowned in France for her fight against organised crime and has been a police commissioner since the 70's, was elected at the 81st Interpol General Assembly in Rome.
"I am very proud for women, I am also proud for France, but we must not forget that I represent all the world's police forces together," she said of her historic rise to lead the 190 member country policing body.
She said Interpol "needs to face the new threats like cybercrime" and "develop the means to be used by the various police services worldwide."
Ballestrazzi will replace outgoing president Khoo Boon Hui of Singapore who has led the organisation for the past 10 years.
"This bodes well as we prepare our organisation and our members to tackle the increasingly difficult environment we face, not as individual member states but as a truly resilient and resourceful international police organisation. This is Interpol," Khoo said in his farewell speech on Thursday.
The next general assembly will be held in Cartagena, Colombia, in 2013.
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