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Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi (born 7 March 1950 in Johannesburg) is the suspended national commissioner of the South African Police Service, and a former president of Interpol. Selebi is presently on extended leave as National Police Commissioner, and resigned as president of Interpol, to fight corruption charges in his native South Africa.
Selebi was a representative of the World Federation of Democratic Youth in Budapest, Hungary from 1983 - 1987. Thereafter he was elected Head of the ANC Youth League and member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC in 1987. In 1991 he was responsible for the repatriation of ANC exiles and in 1993 was appointed Head of the Department of Welfare of the ANC. Selebi was elected Honourable Member of Parliament during the 1994 elections. In 1995, Selebi was appointed South Africa's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Geneva. Switzerland. In 1998 he received a Human Rights Award from the International Service for Human Rights.
In 2007, Selebi was strongly criticised for responding to concern within the country over South Africa's rising crime rate with the comment "What's all the fuss about crime?"