Drug Trafficker’s Illicit Phone Call Lands Moroccan Police Officer in Prison

In Salé, a drug baron "borrowed" the mobile phone of the officer in charge of monitoring the custody rooms at the Regional Security of Hay Essalam to freely converse with his family, particularly his sister, during his detention. This flagrant breach of custody rules led to the establishment of an investigative commission from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN). Arriving at the Regional Security headquarters in Salé, it interrogates the police elements responsible for security at the time of the events and the persons in custody, and examines the surveillance camera recordings to accurately identify the person who allowed the drug baron to call his family at night, reports Assabah.

Following the instructions of the King’s Prosecutor, the National Judicial Police Brigade interrogated all the police elements who were on duty that evening in the premises of the Regional Security of Hay Essalam. It was thus discovered that it was the mobile phone of the officer in charge of monitoring the custody rooms that the drug baron used to make a phone call. The King’s Prosecutor at the Court of First Instance of Salé then decides to prosecute the police officer under arrest and refer him to an investigating judge. He will then be placed in pre-trial detention at El Arjat prison.

The drug trafficker in custody is a man in his thirties who was recently arrested with another accomplice. These two individuals allegedly belong to a drug trafficking network. Thanks to information received by the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), elements of the Anti-Gang Brigade of the Regional Security of Salé had managed to arrest them. During this operation, they seized thousands of psychotropic pills in a truck as well as a significant amount of cash.