ROME - The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese, has appointed Lamberto Giannini as the new Chief of Police - Director General of Public Security.

  The announcement, made on Thursday by the Interior Ministry, praised his “personal and professional qualities,” that make the appointment “a ever more solid assurance for citizens and the police force.” 

  Giannini was born in Rome in 1964 and graduated from Rome Sapienza with a degree in jurisprudence. He began his policing career in 1989 and has served in Turin and Rome, working for 25 years as antiterrorism investigator.

  In 2004 he was made head of the General Investigations and Special Operations Division (DIGOS), and in 2013 was nominated director of the Central Antiterrorism Service, and from 2016 to 2020 he served as head of the Central Directorate for Antiterrorism Police.

  His investigations have included arrests of the terrorist cell ‘New Red Brigades’ in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as well as the preemptive arrests of countless Muslim extremists planning attacks, most notably, in London in 2005, and at a G8 event in 2009 in Sardinia.

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