Morocco Overhauls Police Leadership: 31 New Appointments Across Major Cities

A total of 31 appointments to positions of responsibility within the central and decentralized services of the DGSN in the cities of Targuist, Salé, Rabat, Casablanca, Safi, Bouznika, Khemisset, Oujda, Guercif, Témara, Al Aroui and Beni Ensar were made by the Director General of National Security. At the central level, a new head of the administrative investigations and complaint processing division under the Inspectorate General has been appointed. At the decentralized level, a police officer has been appointed head of the regional security department of the city of Khemisset, a position he had held on an interim basis until now. Bouznika now has a new police chief. The appointment of a head of the regional division of the judicial police was made in Salé, as well as the appointment of an interim head of the regional police station in Targuist and a head of the general intelligence brigade in Bouarfa.

The police stations of the cities of Oujda, Guercif, Témara, Rabat and Al Aroui have new chiefs. There is also the appointment of a head of the border police brigade at the Jorf Lasfar port police station, a head of the urban unit of the Al Aroui airport, and a head of the road traffic brigade in Beni Ensar. Senior police officers have been appointed to head the administrative annex of the mobile law enforcement unit in Rabat and a unit under the Sensitive Facilities Protection Group in Rabat.

In addition, the appointment of seven police station chiefs, as well as eight heads of the traffic accident division, was made by Abdellatif Hammouchi, in order to strengthen the principle of rotation of positions of responsibility within the Casablanca police prefecture.