Morocco Cracks Down: Interior Ministry Sanctions Dozens of Local Officials

There are about twenty of these officials who have been sanctioned, reports Assabah. Some have been brought before the disciplinary council at the Ministry of the Interior. The identity of the officials concerned will be revealed when the final list of disciplinary sanctions is completed, it is specified. These sanctions are: removal of some, suspension of their functions, demotion for others and reprimands and warnings for at least six law enforcement officers.

"This operation is governed by the constitution and by the principle of correlation between responsibility and accountability and not by score-settling, as some voices wrongly suggest," confides a source at the Ministry of the Interior, adding that the department of Abdelouafi Laftit is reacting immediately to take the necessary decisions against the officials whose investigation shows that they have not carried out their mission properly.

The same source also points out that the objective of the operation is to better rationalize the human resources of the Ministry of the Interior and to ensure more efficiency in the performance of the mission of the law enforcement officers.