Demelash Gebremichael is an Ethiopian politician who is serving as the Commissioner General of the

Ethiopian Federal Police The Ethiopian Federal Police (EFP) is the law enforcement agency of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Established in 1995, the agency aims with objectives of maintaining or safeguarding the public security, human and democratic rights ...

, he was appointed to the rank by Prime Minister

Abiy Ahmed Abiy Ahmed Ali ( om, Abiyi Ahmed Alii; am, አብይ አሕመድ ዐሊ; born 15 August 1976) is an Ethiopian politician who has been the 4th prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia since 2 April 2018. He won the 2019 ...

since 8 November 2020. Before he became the commissioner general of the federal police, he was the Director General of the

National Intelligence and Security Service The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) () is an intelligence agency of the Ethiopian federal government tasked with gathering information of national interests. It does counter-terrorism in the country by informing the federal po ...

(NISS) from 28 June 2019 to 8 November 2020.

Office position

After Prime Minister

made Demelash Gebremichael General Commissioner of the Federal Police Commission, he also made

Temesgen Tiruneh Temesgen Tiruneh is the director general of Ethiopia's National Intelligence and Security Service. On 8 November 2020, Temesgen Tiruneh was appointed to the position of director general of NISS by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, in the midst of the T ...

the Director of the

(NISS). Gebremichael was a close friend to prime minister Abiy Ahmed, before he served as the director general of NISS he was the Deputy Chief of NISS. His boss was killed in an assassination as the Director of NISS. Abiy Ahmed appointed him to take over Adem's former position at the NISS and appointed Mola Hailemariam (Lut. Gen) as chief of ground forces member. A few days later after the assassination of other General

Se'are Mekonnen Se'are Mekonnen (; ; 1954 – 22 June 2019) was an Ethiopian army officer. He was the Chief of General Staff (Ethiopia), Chief of General Staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force from 2018 until he was Amhara Region coup d'état attempt, a ...

, the NISS director Adem was appointed Chief of Staff of the armed forces and Demelash become the director of the NISS.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Ethiopian politicians {{more cats, date=October 2021