IGP Md Ali Hossain Fakir leaves for France to join Interpol biosecurity conference

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md Ali Hossain Fakir has left Dhaka for France to attend the Second Interpol Global Biosecurity Conference.

He left Dhaka on Sunday morning (November 1), according to Police Headquarters sources.

Police Headquarters said the conference, organised at the initiative of Interpol’s Bioterrorism Prevention Unit, will be held from November 3 to 5 at the Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France.

Representatives of law-enforcement agencies and partner organisations from different regions of the world, biosecurity experts and academics will take part in the three-day conference.

The conference will review current and future biosecurity threats. It will also discuss ways to take practical and effective steps to deal with possible threats.

The IGP will return home on November 7 after the conference, according to Police Headquarters sources.