Brigadier General Simon Perry, Israel National Police

Brig. Gen. Simon Perry, PhD, is the deputy police and liaison officer to the U.S. and Canada for the Israeli Police and Ministry of Public Security at Israel’s Washington embassy. He joined the Israel National Police in 1978, following military service as a tanks officer, head of platoon, and deputy head of company. Prior to his current assignment, he served as commander of the Intelligence and Operational Division, the National Unit for Exposing Severe, International and Organized Crime. Prior to that, he was the head of Interpol and International Relations in the Intelligence Department at Israel Police Headquarters, where he managed all Interpol activities in Israel and abroad, and before that he was commander of National Drug and International Operations Unit. In 2003, he received his PhD in criminology from the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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