Rabat Boosts Holiday Security with Increased Police Presence and Checkpoints

This involves, for the judicial and administrative roadblocks, the existing checkpoints at the entrances to the city, the main road axes and the traffic police, to inspect suspicious vehicles and verify the identity of road users, to multiply the surveillance patrol teams in the various streets and neighborhoods of the capital, according to a press release from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN).

These measures are, it is said, fully consistent with the efforts deployed by the DGSN nationwide aimed at protecting individuals, property and fighting crime in all its forms, the note specifies, stating that the Rabat police have done enormous and important work during the year 2021, through security interventions and the arrest of suspicious persons.

Operational assessment: 270,793 people compared to 180,347 were arrested in the capital in 2020, an increase of nearly 50%. These people were apprehended in flagrante delicto, according to details provided by the head of the Rabat Anti-Gang Brigade, Zohair Raji.

Similarly, the tracking operations made it possible to arrest 9,720 wanted persons this year, compared to 8,290 in 2020, an increase of nearly 18%. Those undertaken since mid-December have led to the arrest of 3,796 individuals in flagrante delicto and 244 wanted persons, compared to 170 people.