Franco Gabrielli

Franco Gabrielli (born February 13, 1960 in Viareggio , Tuscany ) has been head of the main department for public security (Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza) in the Italian Ministry of the Interior in Rome and thus also head of the Polizia di Stato since 2016 . In the course of his career he was, among other things, head of the Italian domestic intelligence service , civil defense and prefect of the provinces of L'Aquila and Rome .

Life

After studying law in Pisa , Franco Gabrielli joined the state police in 1985 and was trained at the Istituto superiore di Polizia in Rome. After a job with a riot police unit in Genoa , he worked from January 1987 to August 1990 at the police headquarters in Imperia , first with the state security department DIGOS (against the Red Brigades ) and then as the chief of the police’s cabinet . Until November 1996 he headed the counter-terrorism section of the DIGOS department of the Florence Police Headquarters , after which he was head of cabinet of the central witness protection service in Rome for three years . After the murder of the labor law expert and government advisor Massimo D'Antona by the so-called "New Red Brigades", he took part in the investigation into this case from June 1999. In August 2000 he came to the police headquarters in Rome, where in January 2001 he took over the management of the local DIGOS department. Gabrielli was promoted to Conductor Superiore ( Ministerial Conductor ) in October 2003 for special merits in investigating various left-wing extremist assassinations . From May 2004 he set up a counter-terrorism center at the Ministry of the Interior in Rome, and the following year he became head of the central counter-terrorism service in the Ministry of the Interior.

From December 2006 to August 2007 Gabrielli was the last head of the intelligence service SISDE and then until June 2008 the first head of the successor organization AISI . In the 2008/2009 academic year he was a lecturer in criminal analysis in the Psychology Department of the University of L'Aquila . After the earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009 , the Italian government appointed him Prefect of L'Aquila, where he took care of the emergency there and the security of the G8 summit held there . The following year he became head of the Italian civil defense (civil protection ). On April 2, 2015, the Italian government appointed him Prefect of Rome, then on April 29, 2016, Director General for Public Security in the Ministry of the Interior and thus also head of the State Police.

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SURNAME	Gabrielli, Franco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian lawyer and prefect
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Viareggio , Tuscany