Morocco Suspends Police Officers for Alleged Exam Fraud

An internal audit of the files of the police officers who successfully passed the external professional competitions to access a higher rank revealed that the answers of the two suspended agents are identical to scientific articles published on the Internet, which required the opening of an administrative investigation to verify the tests and compare them with the published articles, indicates the DGSN in a press release on Friday.

This administrative investigation confirmed that the two officials in question did indeed commit the act of fraud, the same source said. The new recruitment charter adopted three years ago by the DGSN had set three levels of control and audit in the process of organizing recruitment competitions in the ranks of the national security, recalls the same source.

The first level concerns real-time control and the fight against all means of fraud during the conduct of competitions, as well as during the correction and announcement of results, while the other levels of audit and control are ex post and concern the processing of the files of the candidates who have taken the competitions, including the files of the police officers who are required to be honest, disciplined and to respect the ethics of the police profession, explains the same source.