Morocco Cracks Down on Misuse of Government Vehicles During Summer Vacation

Will the phenomenon of using service vehicles for personal purposes during the summer period soon be a distant memory? Following the publication of several videos circulating showing service vehicles parked in beach or leisure and entertainment parking lots during this vacation period, "instructions and instructions would have been sent to the competent police and gendarmerie services to verify and ensure that the vehicles of the administration are used for administrative purposes," reports Al Akhbar. They must ensure that the use of the administrative vehicle is justified by a mission order specifying in particular the circulation perimeter, the destination and the nature of the mission.

With a national vehicle fleet of more than 184,000 service vehicles, for about 900,000 civil servants, or one car for five civil servants, Morocco is at the top of the countries using company cars, far ahead of Japan, 3,400 cars for more than 5 million civil servants, the United Kingdom, 3,600 company cars, Canada, (2,600), the United States (72,000) and France, (75,000). According to data communicated by the National Transport and Logistics Company, which manages the state’s vehicle fleet, service vehicles result in annual expenses of more than 10 billion dirhams. The increase in fuel prices in recent years would have exploded this budget envelope.