Prefect Vittorio Rizzi will be the new director of the Department of Information for Security (DIS). The news was made official by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during a press conference at the beginning of the year yesterday. The appointment will be formalized in the next Council of Ministers. “I confirm that we have decided to appoint Rizzi, the current Deputy Director of the AISI, as the new Head of the DIS,” the Prime Minister said, stressing that Rizzi will take the place of Elisabetta Belloni. “She is a first-rate state official,” Meloni added, praising Rizzi's “extraordinary operational achievements” in various roles she has held, achievements that have been appreciated both nationally and internationally. With more than 30 years of experience in the State Police and security services, Vittorio Rizzi is considered a leading figure in the Italian institutional landscape. Born in Bologna in September 1959, Rizzi earned degrees in Law and Public Administration Sciences, embarking on a career in the Police in the late 1980s. His career path has been characterized by assignments of increasing responsibility. In 1989 he started as an officer in charge of the operations room at the Rome Police Headquarters, moving on from 1990 to 1992 to the Special Investigations Division. In the following years he led the mobile squads in Venice, Milan and Rome, also distinguishing himself as head of the “Marco Biagi” investigation group between 2002 and 2004. In 2012 he was appointed senior manager and became director of the Traffic Police Service for a year before becoming quaestor of L'Aquila from 2013 to 2015. From 2015 to 2016, he was director of the Public Security Inspectorate at Palazzo Chigi. His career continued to progress in May 2016, when the Council of Ministers appointed him Prefect and Central Anticrime Director of the State Police, a post he held until March 2019. Subsequently, he was designated Deputy Director General of Public Security and Central Director of Criminal Police. In 2023, Rizzi assumed the role of Deputy Chief of the State Police, before joining the Secret Service as Deputy Director of the Internal Intelligence and Security Agency (AISI). This path prepared him for his new post as Director of DIS, where he will be responsible for coordinating national intelligence activities.