In step with the institutional communication coverage adopted by the Normal Directorate of Nationwide Safety (DGSN) on the finish of every 12 months, to assist neighborhood policing, to strengthen the safety establishment’s opening to its atmosphere and to consolidate the pillars of safety governance and safety manufacturing, DGSN companies current their annual report for the 12 months 2023.
This report highlights the modernization of safety companies and buildings, the efforts to strengthen the safety feeling and the combat towards crime, in addition to the mechanisms for rational administration of the police officer’s skilled profession as a way to assure an built-in working atmosphere and permit her/him to optimally perform her/his duties. It additionally presents the initiatives associated to safety and public order for subsequent 12 months.
In step with this communication channel, DGSN presents the 2023 report in response to the next details:
First: New police buildings to diversify the safety supply
In an effort to strengthen neighborhood policing buildings and promote companies’ adaptation to the enlargement of latest city facilities, the Directorate Normal of Nationwide Safety (DGSN) created 13 new safety buildings in 2023.
These are: the fifth district of the Rabat police prefecture, the Ryad police district, the twenty fourth police district on the Marrakech police prefecture, in addition to the creation of the cell emergency police unit on the Kenitra police prefecture, two police canine brigades in Kenitra and Larache, and a cell policing unit in Settat.
The creation of those 13 new safety buildings goals to strengthen the buildings assigned to neighborhood policing and to make sure companies’ adaptation to city enlargement.
This additionally issues the Rabat police prefecture, with the creation of the fifth police district and the Ryad police district, in addition to the creation of 24 police districts inside the Marrakech police prefecture. This brings the general variety of police districts all through the dominion to 454, protecting all city areas underneath DGSN companies.
DGSN continued the generalization of emergency police models, working underneath the supervision of the command and coordination rooms.
This 12 months, the inauguration of the everlasting cell emergency police unit on the Kenitra police prefecture, marked a major step ahead. Made up of cell groups of bikers and emergency autos, this unit responds successfully to residents’ requires assist, guaranteeing fast intervention. These autos are consistently checked and monitored by the related companies at central and regional ranges.
Throughout this 12 months, the command and coordination rooms dealt with a complete of 19,722,041 emergency calls by way of phone line 19, leading to 867,042 interventions on public roads. Police emergency cell models carried out 448,256 interventions on public roads.
Along with emergency calls, residents requested info, whereas some calls had been damaging.
In the identical context, the uniformed brigades carried out 494 patrols on public roads, thus totaling 529,164 floor interventions, starting from arresting individuals concerned in prison instances to reporting driving offenses, together with regulation enforcement.
DGSN additionally inaugurated citizen reception areas, in partnership with the ministry answerable for Digital Transition and Administration Reform in addition to the United Nations Improvement Program (UNDP).
These areas had been initially arrange on the identification information registration heart of the Temara provincial police district, on the foreigners’ part of the Prefectural Division of the Normal Intelligence on the Casablanca police prefecture, and on the fifth police arrondissement of the Mehdia-Kenitra district, pending a future generalization of this expertise on a nationwide scale.
These reception areas for Moroccan residents and foreigners stand out for his or her services reconciling an aesthetic side of the inside structure and an exemplary reception and orientation atmosphere with the presence of female and male law enforcement officials, properly certified to information customers of this public service.
Geared up with an built-in info system due to computer systems related to specialised techniques and interconnected with scanning gadgets reminiscent of optical scanners and digital readers of fingerprints, playing cards and identification information, these facilities goal to advertise police companies by significantly decreasing the time required to obtain and course of consumer requests.
2023 was marked by strengthening territorial models with new groups, thanks particularly to the creation of two police canine brigades within the police prefecture of Kenitra and the provincial district of Larache, in addition to a cell regulation enforcement unit in Settat, along with three companies specialised in highway accidents within the police districts of Benguerir and Tangier-Beni Makada and one other on the regional police station of Ait Melloul.
A brand new identification information registration heart was additionally inaugurated within the Driouch district.
As a part of bettering safety governance and modernizing the general public police service, building works on the brand new headquarters of the Normal Directorate of Nationwide Safety are nonetheless underway over an space of 20 hectares within the Ryad district in Rabat.
It’s an built-in administrative complicated bringing collectively all central safety departments in a single place. Works in its numerous fundamental services reached a completion fee of 90%, in accordance with the work plans established to fulfill deadlines.
2023 was additionally marked by the launch of building initiatives for seven new safety buildings, together with the Regional Safety District in Fkih Ben Saleh, in addition to the headquarters of police districts and highway accident and well being companies on the Tangier police prefecture.
As well as, three police districts had been created in Casablanca, Khenifra and Mohammedia. There was additionally an operation to re-equip and rehabilitate the headquarters of three police districts on the Casablanca police prefecture, three districts on the Fez prefecture, the headquarters of the Bouznika police station, and the cell regulation enforcement brigade on the Fez police prefecture and a police district in Benslimane.
Moreover, this 12 months was marked by the launch of the entire deployment strategy of the brand new visible identification aimed toward distinguishing the fleet of safety autos from different autos and vehicles.
Thus, 549 intervention autos had been outfitted with this visible identification. On the identical time, the modernization of DGSN car fleet continued with the acquisition and supply of two,132 new autos for the assorted regional and central DGSN directorates. These autos are outfitted to fulfill the skilled wants of various police models and brigades nationwide.
Second: IT system: complementary digital platforms serving residents and police s officers
1- Digital identification paperwork: on the trail to digital transition
In 2023, DGSN additional bolstered the digital infrastructure of administrative companies supplied to residents and international nationals residing in Morocco, together with identification paperwork, residence permits and administrative certificates.
The method of opening as much as numerous private and non-private service suppliers was additionally strengthened, by the conclusion of partnerships and agreements aimed toward generalizing the usage of the “Trusted Third Occasion” platform for identification verification linked to the “Digital Identification” area, which was developed by DGSN.
The “Trusted Third Occasion” platform is an info mechanism that permits residents to securely entry the assorted companies supplied by private and non-private sectors, in a approach that protects their private information, because it permits the holder of the nationwide digital identification card to establish oneself and confirm one’s identification and its use within the numerous administrative and banking operations immediately, routinely and securely with service suppliers, whether or not in bodily presence utilizing the cardboard outfitted with an digital chip, or on-line utilizing the “Digital Identification” system.
To consolidate this method developed by DGSN companies and made out there to residents and banking establishments, DGSN companies launched, in the course of the 12 months, the “Mon identité numérique” (My digital identification) utility, downloadable on essentially the most used cell working techniques, and which permits residents to create, monitor and exploit their identification inside the digital area in a safe and private approach, primarily based on the information contained within the nationwide digital identification card (CNIE).
This utility was additionally bolstered by the launch of the interactive digital portal “www.identitenumerique.ma”, which permits residents to profit from digital identification companies with out having to obtain the applying on cell phones.
This 12 months was additionally marked by strengthening the participatory strategy of public companies’ simplification. Thus, DGSN shared the experiences it has collected within the administration of identification information and their use within the digital area by the signing of latest agreements with the Ministry of Well being and Social Safety, the Supervisory Authority of Insurance coverage and Social Welfare (ACAPS), the Ministry of Youth, Tradition and Communication, the Ministry of Nationwide Schooling, Preschool and Sports activities, the Nationwide Fund of Social Welfare Organizations, on the usage of the “Trusted Third Occasion” platform as a way to confirm digital identification in private and non-private companies supplied to residents. Furthermore, DGSN signed a memorandum of understanding with the Court docket of Auditors to facilitate the motion of economic courts, along with a number of memorandums of understanding with quite a few personal corporations and repair suppliers nationally, which in flip goal to profit from this new digital service.
2023 was additionally marked by the continued implementation of the technique of bringing collectively and generalizing CNIE companies for all residents, by the creation of 32 cell models for the issuance and renewal of the digital nationwide identification card. These are autos outfitted with two platforms to document citizen identification information for the inhabitants residing in geographically distant areas and mountainous rural areas. The general variety of beneficiaries of this cell service reached 128,451 individuals.
This 12 months additionally noticed a sustained and immediate response to residents’ requests for digital and administrative identification paperwork, together with residence permits for foreigners. A cumulative complete of 4,269,781 new-generation digital nationwide identification playing cards had been issued. Amongst these, 3,077,398 had been generated on the Rabat issuance heart, whereas 1,192,383 had been produced on the supplementary issuance heart in Marrakech as a part of the proximity coverage with residents.
Moreover, a complete of 348,070 digital nationwide identification playing cards had been issued for members of the Moroccan neighborhood residing overseas, with 45,739 allotted to minor youngsters. This additionally encompasses the issuance of 1,552,306 anthropometric sheets, 43,807 residence permits for foreigners, 20,031 entry visas to the nationwide territory, and a pair of,246 distinctive new-generation residence permits.
2. Digital House: Subsequent-Era Providers
Within the 12 months 2023, the technical companies of the Normal Directorate of Nationwide Safety (DGSN) have considerably propelled the digitization of public security companies, thereby markedly enhancing safety efficiency. This strategic initiative encompasses the nationwide deployment of a unified police telecommunications community—an exceptionally safe infrastructure comprising optical fibers that interconnect 57 cities throughout the nation. This community ensures safe telecommunications and expeditious information switch, particularly tailor-made to fulfill the operational necessities of safety service administration.
The event of this community has attained a complicated stage, encompassing 19 facilities nationwide. Moreover, the technical companies of the DGSN have devoted efforts to the creation of varied functions and data know-how options, empowering law enforcement officials to execute their missions with elevated effectivity. This endeavor consists of the finalization of the deployment of the Police District Administration Data System (GESTARR) and the mixing of further companies, notably linking it to the brand new info system managing prison instances for police districts. At present, this method is present process experimental use in 350 police stations inside the police prefectures of Kenitra, Tangier, Meknes, Marrakech, Settat, and the provincial safety of Safi.
To spice up the efficacy of safety interventions on public roads and fortify management mechanisms for police patrols, a geographic location system using the World Positioning System (GPS) is being adopted. That is achieved by the set up of GPS gadgets on 800 police autos and bikes, routinely synchronized with the Safety Intervention Data System. This initiative goals to boost the velocity of response to residents’ calls as a part of the continued and gradual implementation of this mechanism within the close to future.
As a part of a strategic plan to include synthetic intelligence strategies in policing, the DGSN has launched a brand new technological system targeted on leveraging city surveillance digital camera networks and cell cameras of DGSN to routinely learn car license plates on city roads. At present, this course of is present process experimental implementation within the police prefectures of Casablanca and Agadir.
Within the present 12 months, 228 reported stolen vehicles and autos had been intercepted, together with 585 autos whose house owners had been topics of nationwide search notices because of suspicions of involvement in prison actions.
The technical companies of the DGSN are actively engaged within the improvement of latest software program that makes use of synthetic intelligence to establish people and confirm the identification of these topic to go looking notices. This experimental method has demonstrated important effectiveness in monitoring and neutralizing people posing critical threats to the protection of residents and their property.
In a dedication to harness trendy communication applied sciences for the welfare of residents, the DGSN has initiated the utilization of social community Fb for publishing and disseminating search notices for lacking youngsters sought by their households. That is facilitated by Tifli Moukhtafi, a newly developed software program related to police districts nationwide. This method has streamlined the publication of a complete of 222 circulars nationwide, expediting the seek for lacking youngsters.
Third: Combating Crime and Enhancing the Sense of Safety
Within the 12 months 2023, a concerted effort was made to bolster coaching within the area of human rights for personnel inside the prison justice system and energetic personnel engaged in judicial policing, in addition to people working on the stage of custody services and police custody premises and mechanisms for caring for girls and minors who’re victims of violence, in in collaboration with the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace and the Royal Gendarmerie Command.
This effort has enhanced the abilities of officers from the assorted judicial police companies nationwide, who’ve adopted trendy analysis strategies and change into acquainted with greatest practices within the area of prison investigations.
These safety efforts and these institutional partnerships have notably influenced the outcomes of operations towards prison actions, thereby contributing to an augmented sense of safety.
1. Crime Prevention: Decline in Crime Indicators and Rise in Repression Charges
All through the present 12 months, the Normal Directorate of Nationwide Safety (DGSN) has diligently executed the provisions outlined within the crime-fighting technique for the 2022-2026 interval. This complete technique concerned fortifying anti-delinquency buildings, advancing forensic science and technical police laboratories, intensifying the utilization of latest methodologies in prison investigations, and integrating a human rights perspective into police capabilities. This emphasis prolonged to custody procedures, surveillance inside detention facilities, and fostering coordination with the Normal Directorate of Nationwide Territory Surveillance in addressing intricate points.
This built-in strategy yielded important outcomes, exemplified by a noteworthy 10% discount within the total crime panorama, encompassing the variety of instances and recorded incidents, which totaled 738,748 instances for the 12 months. Consequently, 723,874 people had been apprehended and referred to numerous public prosecutors.
Indicators of violent crime additionally skilled declines, with murders and homicides lowering by 25%, sexual assaults by 4%, automotive thefts by roughly 19%, certified thefts by 9%, and violent thefts by 6%.
In tandem with the discount in crime indicators, the repression fee—the speed of resolving dedicated crimes—endured at traditionally excessive ranges for the seventh consecutive 12 months, standing at 95% of the overall recorded instances and roughly 92% of violent crimes.
These achievements had been primarily realized by the development of prison investigation instruments, the pivotal position of forensic science and know-how, and the immediate reporting of crimes by victims and witnesses. Moreover, stringent measures towards false accusations and misinformation disseminated on social networks considerably contributed to mitigating crime indicators related to “shadow crimes” or unreported offenses and penalizing their perpetrators.
Within the area of drug-related instances, 2023 witnessed heightened collaboration between the Nationwide Safety and Nationwide Territory Surveillance companies in prison intelligence and border management. Coordination at border posts led to the registration and processing of 99,513 instances, ensuing within the arrest of 130,212 people, together with 305 foreigners. Notably, cannabis seizures amounted to 81,175 metric tons, reflecting a 17% lower. Moreover, 1,922 metric tons of cocaine, 6.88 kg of heroin, and 1,223,774 ecstasy tablets and different psychotropic substances had been seized.
The 12 months 2023 was marked by the implementation of an motion plan concentrating on the manufacturing and trafficking of the artificial drug often called “L’pufa.” This concerted effort concerned components from the Particular Power of the Normal Directorate of Nationwide Territory Surveillance, the analysis and intervention crew of the Nationwide Police Judicial Brigade, and all DGSN decentralized companies. The end result was the disruption of the trafficking community, resulting in the arrest of 575 people concerned on this illicit commerce and the seizure of 5,175 kg of this artificial drug.
Circumstances associated to trendy applied sciences and cyber extortion recorded a 6% enhance, with almost 5,969 instances. The variety of worldwide warrants issued rose to 842, in comparison with 752 within the earlier 12 months, ensuing within the arrest and referral to justice of 874 people.
In sextortion instances, DGSN companies recorded 508 incidents in the course of the 12 months, an 18% enhance in comparison with the earlier 12 months. A complete of 182 people concerned in these prison acts, concentrating on 515 victims, together with 109 foreigners, had been arrested.
Addressing unlawful immigration, efforts led to the prevention of 28,863 makes an attempt of irregular immigration, together with 18,820 of varied international nationalities. This concerned dismantling 121 prison networks and the apprehension of 594 organizers and intermediaries. On this context, 707 solid journey and identification paperwork associated to those instances had been seized, together with 215 boats and 31 autos utilized in organizing immigration operations.
Relating to monetary and financial crimes, the DGSN companies continued to boost prison investigation strategies. This occurred on the stage of the Nationwide Police Judicial Brigade and its regional brigades in Rabat, Casablanca, Fez, and Marrakech.
These brigades dealt with 529 instances associated to corruption, embezzlement of belief, misappropriation of public funds, and extortion—a rise of almost 14% in comparison with the earlier 12 months. The variety of suspects investigated in these instances reached 693 people, together with 322 in corruption and belief abuse instances, 259 suspects in embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds instances, and 112 in extortion and abuse of energy instances.
Regarding counterfeiting, fraudulent use of technique of cost, and forex trafficking, DGSN companies processed 38 instances associated to forex trafficking, 57,980 instances of offenses towards the laws governing checks—a lower of almost 1.5%—153 instances of fraud and fraud involving technique of cost, and 151 instances of counterfeiting forex and international alternate.
Such a instances led to seizing 481 counterfeit nationwide banknotes and 1,489 counterfeit international banknotes for a complete quantity of 95,800 US {dollars}, 74,820 euros and 340 kilos sterling, along with dismantling 19 prison networks energetic in counterfeiting currencies, technique of cost and bank cards. Some 181 individuals of various nationalities had been dropped at justice and 34 items of kit and digital media utilized in piracy, counterfeiting and fraudulent cost had been seized.
Within the combat towards terrorism, extremism and the glorification of terrorist acts, the Nationwide Brigade of Judicial Police referred 29 individuals suspected of involvement in such instances to the competent public prosecutor’s workplace this 12 months, along with the terrorist cells dismantled by the Central Bureau of Prison Investigation underneath the Normal Directorate for Nationwide Territorial Surveillance, together with the terrorist cell concerned within the homicide of a police officer in Errahma neighborhood in Casablanca.
2- Scientific and Technical Police Evaluation Report
In 2023, the assorted branches of the Scientific and Technical Police Laboratory in Casablanca maintained their ISO 17025 high quality certification for the sixth 12 months working. This had a optimistic influence on the standard of scientific experience carried out, in addition to on the rise within the variety of prison instances dropped at trial, and contributed to consolidating truthful trial mechanisms by counting on scientific proof in prison investigations.
The technical companies of DGSN Institute of Forensic Sciences carried out 714 forensic examinations on solid paperwork, a rise of 9%, 137 forensic examinations on counterfeit international and home banknotes and 264 ballistic examinations on 149 firearms and seven,889 munitions and projectiles, an increase of 31% on the earlier 12 months.
The central service and regional digital hint evaluation laboratories recorded a complete of 6,249 requests for experience, which had been carried out on 24,266 digital media, recording a rise of 12% on the earlier 12 months, the press launch specified, including that the nationwide forensic and technical police laboratory in Casablanca acquired 20,129 requests for experience in the course of the present 12 months, together with 16,635 requests for DNA pattern evaluation, a rise of round 23% on the earlier 12 months, and 1,391 requests for experience within the area of forensic chemistry (+22%). The Division of Medication and Forensic Poisons carried out the mandatory scientific experience on 2,061 instances referring to medicine and psychotropic substances, a rise of 14%.
3- Selling Safety Cooperation Partnerships
The present 12 months was marked by the continuation of the method of strengthening and intensifying worldwide safety cooperation operations with numerous worldwide companions, together with authorities businesses and organizations answerable for safety affairs and regulation enforcement, a cooperation which targeted primarily on operational coordination and technical help with pleasant and companion international locations.
This fruitful cooperation was topped by the unanimous approval of selecting the Kingdom of Morocco to host, in 2025, the 93rd session of the Normal Meeting of the Normal Prison Police Group “Interpol”, which brings collectively the chiefs and representatives of the safety companies of 196 member states, along with organizing, on December 6-7, 2023, the forty seventh Convention of Arab Police and Safety Chiefs.
The 12 months was additionally marked by the consolidation of bilateral and multilateral safety cooperation, because the Normal Directorate for Nationwide Safety took half in high-level conferences held inside the framework of Interpol and the Normal Secretariat of the Council of Arab Inside Ministers and the African Union.
Bilateral conferences on points associated to strengthening worldwide safety had been additionally held, notably with the President of the Worldwide Prison Police Group, the Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Director Normal of the French police and Belgium’s Performing Director Normal of Safety, the Vice-President of the Saudi Arabian Safety Service, the Secretary Normal of the Data System of the Portuguese Republic (SIRP) and the Director Normal of the Portuguese Intelligence Service (SIS), in addition to the President of the German Federal Workplace for the Safety of the Structure and the Director Normal of the State Safety and Intelligence Providers of the Republic of Austria.
On the numeric indicators of this cooperation, the Worldwide Cooperation Division underneath the Normal Directorate of Nationwide Safety processed 6,473 recordsdata and requests for info, a rise of 12% on 2022. Of those, drug-related instances accounted for 13%, adopted by the combat towards unlawful immigration (15%), alternate and switch of prisoners to serve the rest of their sentences of their international locations of origin (9%), mutual exploitation of databases (6%) and data request notices (26%).
As for operational cooperation, the Nationwide Central Bureau (Interpol Rabat) monitored the execution of 119 worldwide letters rogatory issued by international authorities, and disclosed 121 worldwide arrest warrants, which led to the arrest of 92 individuals topic to worldwide needed notices issued by Moroccan judicial authorities.
The identical Bureau revealed 3280 nationwide needed notices following arrest warrants issued by competent authorities in international international locations. It additionally issued 245 search notices issued by police companies in Arab international locations, whereas 2006 warrants to terminate worldwide searches and 342 warrants to terminate Arab search notices had been issued.
With regard to the extradition of criminals, a complete of 54 people had been topic to worldwide arrest warrants issued by Moroccan authorities in 2023, in contrast with 69 individuals in 2022. Moreover, a complete of 48 international nationals had been arrested in Morocco after being topic of extradition warrants to the judicial authorities of the international locations that requested them.
4- Highway security indicators
In 2023, there have been 85,475 bodily visitors accidents in city areas, in contrast with 80,091 in 2022; a rise of seven%.
This had a direct influence on the overall variety of visitors accident victims, who suffered 993 fatalities in 2023, in contrast with 834 in 2022, along with 4,413 critical accidents and 111,478 minor accidents.
With regard to visitors enforcement measures, a complete of 374,446 official reviews of visitors offences had been issued in 2023, in contrast with 372,086 in 2022; a rise of round 1%.
The variety of fines imposed in the course of the present 12 months fell barely by 8.5%, from 1,728,209 final 12 months to 1,711,208 in 2023.
In the identical context, DGSN continued to strengthen its institutional partnership with the Nationwide Highway Security Company (NARSA), implementing a collection of strategic packages to forestall and lift consciousness of visitors accidents.
This institutional partnership has made it attainable to supply the cell visitors brigades with logistical and roadside management gear, with the supply, in the course of the present 12 months, of 120 large- and medium-cylinder bikes, along with finalizing and generalizing an up to date model of the Roadside Management Information for law enforcement officials and civil servants. It goals to ensure systematic coaching and proper utility of highway security provisions.
A brand new strategy to coaching in road-user habits was additionally mentioned, encompassing a complete record of greatest practices for coping with residents on the general public freeway, whether or not pedestrians or motorists and their escorts.
Fourth: Supporting Main Nationwide and Worldwide Occasions, Enshrining the Moroccan Safety Mannequin
1- Backing Public Reduction Effort to Rescue Al Haouz Earthquake Victims
Pursuant to the Excessive Royal Directions, and from the very first hours following the Al Haouz earthquake which shook a number of areas of the Excessive Atlas, the DGSN labored to activate the particular danger administration mobilization system, and mobilized all its human and logistical sources to contribute to the general public effort to convey aid and help to victims, assure the protection of their property and protect public order.
To this finish, the cell regulation enforcement groups had been mobilized and made out there to the prefectures of Marrakech and Agadir. All of the specialised search and rescue groups able to contributing to the efforts to avoid wasting individuals affected by this pure catastrophe had been additionally mobilized.
The interventions of DGSN companies consisted in guaranteeing the protection of products and other people within the areas underneath their jurisdiction, and offering assist to the opposite public forces within the disaster-stricken rural areas. Built-in preparations had been put in place to guard individuals and items within the momentary reception websites and facilitate the supply of first help.
Cellular regulation enforcement groups additionally made an efficient contribution to clearing rubble and recovering the injured and the stays of victims, whereas guaranteeing their switch to hospitals in main cities reminiscent of Marrakech, Agadir, Taroudant and Beni-Mellal.
DGSN additionally supplied assist for the voluntary and spontaneous initiatives of law enforcement officials who mobilized to donate blood for earthquake victims. Some 11,559 law enforcement officials nationwide took half on this humanitarian operation, making an efficient contribution to replenishing the nationwide blood provide.
In the identical spirit of solidarity, the DGSN dispatched two cell bakeries to the Tahanaout area on the outskirts of Marrakech to assist provide the inhabitants and catastrophe victims with bread and the mandatory technique of subsistence.
The cell bread preparation and baking models are simple to move by truck. They include high-capacity electrical dough machines, ovens and gear for making ready bread all day lengthy. These models are normally made out there to cell regulation enforcement models.
To help affected populations, particularly those that had misplaced their identification paperwork, DGSN launched a neighborhood marketing campaign, throughout which all identification information registration facilities and cell models had been mobilized to provide and renew digital nationwide identification playing cards freed from cost for the good thing about residents of the affected areas in Agadir, Taroudant, Marrakech and Beni-Mellal and their surrounding areas. A complete of 11,048 identification paperwork had been issued.
Along with this intense motion on the bottom, the Pole of the Normal Directorate of Nationwide Safety and the Normal Directorate for Territorial Surveillance contributed 50 million dirhams to the Particular Fund for administration results of the earthquake. Added to this contribution is one million dirhams from the Mohammed VI Basis for the social works of DGSN officers.
For its half, the Fraternal Mutual Support and Orphanages for DGSN Workers allotted a million dirhams, in addition to massive shipments of clothes and sneakers, to those solidarity initiatives linked to managing the earthquake results.
2- Organizing Main Occasions:
For 2023, DGSN has put in place a strategic imaginative and prescient to build up and reinforce experience in securing main occasions. This orientation has supported Morocco’s internet hosting of a collection of regional, continental and worldwide occasions.
Throughout these occasions, the safety companies had been omnipresent and environment friendly by the activation of safety and group protocols. These protocols had been decisive within the success of those occasions, contributing to Morocco’s repute as a trusted companion for internet hosting world-class occasions.
This Moroccan mannequin was primarily based on the implementation of built-in safety plans, primarily based on proactive area and operational research of the safety wants of every occasion, earlier than mobilizing all of the specialised police groups and models, distributing duties between them and guaranteeing their supervision, whereas equipping them with the suitable technique of intervention and logistical gear.
These groups and models had been then deployed in coordination with native safety officers, whereas liaison between them was ensured by a unified administration and supervisory system characterised by coordination and the power to handle operations within the area in accordance with stringent skilled and organizational controls.
On an operational stage, DGSN Providers supplied safety for 1,016 sporting occasions in 2023, together with 910 nationwide occasions in numerous particular person and crew sports activities, in addition to 106 worldwide sporting occasions, together with the Membership World Cup, the African Beneath-23 Cup, the African Ladies’s Cup and matches for the nationwide soccer crew.
All these occasions concerned the mobilization of hundreds of law enforcement officials, each women and men, from regulation enforcement models, in addition to dozens of members of mounted police groups, police canine groups and anti-gang brigades, along with groups specializing in logistical and technical assist.
In the identical vein, DGSN companies supplied safety for main international occasions organized by the Kingdom in 2023, together with the annual conferences of the World Financial institution Group (WB) and the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF), attended by over 14,000 individuals. Greater than 6,500 police women and men had been mobilized for the occasion.
These companies additionally supplied safety for different main occasions, such because the Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition and the forty seventh Annual Convention of Arab Safety and Police Leaders, held in Tangier.
Fifth: Managing the working lives of law enforcement officials
1- Cops’ recruitment and coaching: a path to skilled abilities
The present variety of DGSN officers is 79,830, with a median age of round 40. The 12 months 2023 was marked by the implementation of a collection of packages and initiatives linked to the administration of the skilled lives of police personnel, starting with the continued implementation of the provisions of the brand new police recruitment and coaching constitution.
This 12 months, six (06) open entrance exams had been organized to rent 6,637 civil servants, together with 30 senior commissioners, 130 police commissioners, 250 law enforcement officials, 50 peace officers, 2,050 police inspectors, and 4,127 peacekeepers.
Candidates utilized for these vacancies by way of the digital portal out there to the general public on the Web. These vacancies had been broadly marketed on tv, in trendy communication media, and in a number of nationwide newspapers to make sure equal alternatives for all candidates and make the announcement out there to all female and male candidates.
In parallel with the brand new options launched into the recruitment system and aggressive examinations, to boost the standard of human sources, new coaching packages had been adopted. These mix theoretical programs with sensible workouts inside the numerous police groups and models.
As well as, police trainees took half in seminars {and professional} conferences initiated inside the framework of constant schooling and institutional partnerships.
Equally, the variety of hours of coaching within the numerous forensic specialties has elevated.
Coaching packages and supplies have additionally been up to date and modernized, with a concentrate on distance studying, to allow prompt switch and broadcast of coaching classes to all Royal Police Academies.
Over the course of the 12 months, 12,846 law enforcement officials benefited from skilled coaching packages, with 52% of them attending fundamental coaching classes for brand spanking new recruits to DGSN, whereas 21% benefited from steady coaching classes, and round 12% attended specialised coaching programs in numerous police fields, together with the combat towards unlawful immigration, terrorism, mine clearance, forensics, and the administration of latest IT functions. Different coaching programs included Okay-9 canine coaching and dealing with, equestrian police, car driving, and police intervention mechanisms.
Some 216 coaching classes had been carried out each inside and outdoors Morocco, inside the framework of worldwide safety cooperation relations, for the good thing about 2,198 law enforcement officials.
The 12 months was additionally marked by the continued implementation of bilateral South-South and Arab cooperation packages. In reality, police coaching and qualification packages had been arrange for the good thing about a number of police companies in sister African and Arab international locations. These embrace the coaching of law enforcement officials from such international locations as Djibouti and the United Arab Emirates, who’ve undergone superior sensible and theoretical coaching in public safety, prison investigation, forensics, and technical science, together with the mixing of human rights ideas into police capabilities. Consequently, the variety of international executives skilled in Morocco has risen to 454 law enforcement officials of varied grades and echelons.
DGSN additionally provided sensible and theoretical expertise to Libyan safety executives to tell them in regards to the coaching system on the Royal Police Institute and the newest developments in police curricula.
With respect to the event of infrastructure and police coaching academies, the DGSN has rehabilitated and developed the Ifrane police academy with a view to establishing a global police coaching institute for Moroccan safety executives and their African counterparts. As well as, efforts are persevering with to create new police coaching hubs, represented by police academies in Casablanca and Marrakech, as a part of the implementation of the DGSN plan to ensure specialization, enhance the standard of coaching, and produce coaching colleges nearer to trainees. Latest years have additionally seen the creation of comparable regional academies in Fez, Oujda, Tangier, and Laâyoune.
As a part of a strategic imaginative and prescient aimed toward strengthening the police perform and supporting the human rights dimension within the police coaching program, the DGSN and the Mohammed V College in Rabat signed a framework partnership and institutional cooperation settlement in June 2023 within the space of coaching and consolidating respect for human rights within the safety career, with a view to strengthening cooperation within the fields of coaching, together with fundamental, steady, and specialised coaching, in addition to consolidating our nation’s collected expertise within the area of implementing and defending human rights ideas. Likewise, the goal is to work collectively to advertise a tradition of human rights in police coaching packages by setting them up as a reference and information for the missions of DGSN officers answerable for implementing the regulation.
Moreover, in step with the partnership established in 2022 between the DGSN and the Nationwide Council for Human Rights, 2023 was marked by a number of coaching classes on adopting human rights requirements inside the police work system.
These classes benefited various law enforcement officials, who attended each theoretical programs and sensible workouts within the area of civil liberties and human rights requirements when interacting with individuals in police custody.
One other spotlight of the 12 months was the creation of favorable circumstances for the nationwide mechanism for the prevention of torture to hold out inspection visits and train its capabilities in police custody services on DGSN premises.
As a part of its assist for specialised and technical coaching, the DGSN has organized conferences and seminars in partnership with Morocco’s Judicial Company and the Supreme Council of the Judiciary. The goal was to boost the abilities of safety executives in managing the judicial points of administrative disputes and implementing the ideas and mechanisms of authorized and judicial safety for law enforcement officials who’ve been victims of bodily or verbal aggression or contempt whereas performing their duties.
2- Motivation and self-discipline: mechanisms for good governance
In 2023, DGSN took steps to spice up worker motivation by an built-in strategy that places officers on the forefront of police administration.
This strategy consists, on the one hand, in establishing a number of mechanisms for motivation {and professional} assist, and on the opposite, in making a wholesome working atmosphere providing each assure of purposeful security.
To this finish, this 12 months noticed the announcement of annual promotions for the 2022 finances 12 months, in addition to an distinctive promotion to commemorate the twenty fourth anniversary of Throne Day.
A complete of 19,818 law enforcement officials in numerous ranks benefited from these promotions, representing an distinctive fee of almost 80% of the overall variety of civil servants on the lists of candidates eligible for promotion, in accordance with the provisions of the DGSN civil servant standing.
DGSN has maintained the “annual regularity” of the promotion course of, because the Promotion Fee has accomplished its evaluation of the recordsdata of 11,480 civil servants on the promotion lists for 2022. The DGSN has additionally paid explicit consideration to civil servants in decrease and intermediate grades to profit from purposeful promotion, probably the most vital incentives.
DGSN additionally handed out 14 letters of congratulations and recognition to civil servants who had demonstrated a excessive stage of professionalism within the efficiency of their duties. Equally, it continued to implement the plan to convey civil servants nearer to their household and neighborhood atmosphere by granting 2,782 requests for switch, 1,264 of which had been processed underneath the emergency process for social, well being, or household reunification causes.
Hearings had been additionally granted to 1,082 civil servants who submitted requests for hearings underneath the “Requests for Hearings” scheme, which is assured to all civil servants.
Equally, 2,193 civil servants benefited from the proper to protection and assist as a part of the consecration of the precept of “safety of the state” assured by regulation to safety personnel following bodily and verbal assaults to which they had been uncovered in the course of the efficiency of their duties.
In line with this precept, DGSN organized a coaching session this 12 months, in partnership with the Kingdom’s Judicial Company, to make clear the circumstances and mechanisms required to profit from the proper to help and to overview greatest practices for following up on these instances earlier than the related jurisdictions to ensure the safety of civil servants and enshrine the precept of the primacy of the rule of regulation.
With a view to making sure skilled equity, this 12 months the DGSN labored on strengthening the mechanisms for dealing with administrative grievances by the Central Grievances Fee created in December 2018 and tasked with analyzing grievances and requests for skilled clemency, making suggestions, and making observations aimed toward reconciling the pursuits of the civil servant and the general public service.
Over the course of the 12 months, this fee acquired a complete of 363 administrative grievances and issued 157 suggestions for the revision or cancellation of 12% of disciplinary measures taken and the approval of 86% of sanctions and measures determined upon.
Relating to moralization, the correctional mechanism aimed toward sanctioning skilled misconduct of law enforcement officials, whether or not in the course of the train of their duties or these linked to their high quality within the occasion of infringement of the duty of discretion, integrity and probity, processed 8,283 administrative recordsdata in 2023 and issued 2,151 disciplinary sanctions, together with 237 suspension choices, and 5,502 disciplinary measures by written warnings and requalifications.
As well as, the inspection commissions underneath DGSN carried out 520 administrative investigations in 2023, together with 147 opened on the premise of denunciations which had been dealt with with the required rigor. These investigations involved 1,651 civil servants.
These investigations had been marked by in-depth investigations into all of the alleged dysfunctions attributed to DGSN companies and brokers, in addition to by surveillance and audit operations of varied points of police work.
A complete of 14 investigations concluded to the existence of components constituting acts opposite to prison regulation, and had been submitted to the Judicial Police for notification to the competent public prosecutor’s workplaces and the opening of judicial inquiries.
Social Safety and Well being Protection for DGSN Household:
When it comes to social assist for serving and retired law enforcement officials and their dependents, the Mohammed VI Basis for the Social Works of Nationwide Safety Civil Servants supplied direct help within the type of monetary and in-kind subsidies to its members, benefiting 1,084 members who had suffered critical damage in the midst of their duties, or who had been affected by critical sicknesses, and whose instances had been processed underneath the emergency process.
Direct monetary assist and vouchers had been additionally granted to 4,054 widows and 289 retired law enforcement officials from DGSN household, who obtain a restricted month-to-month pension.
On the religious entrance, 2023 was marked by growing the variety of pilgrimage beneficiaries. Pilgrimage prices had been coated on behalf of 295 beneficiaries from DGSN and territorial surveillance corps, together with 168 individuals who benefited from full protection of pilgrimage prices, whereas 127 others acquired 20,000 dirhams as a partial monetary subsidy, having been chosen by lottery to carry out the Hajj.
As well as, youngsters and orphans of law enforcement officials benefited from various instructional and leisure initiatives, notably following the return of summer season trip camps to their regular rhythm following the lifting of the well being emergency. A complete of three,181 youngsters benefited from these initiatives. These camps had been organized over 4 completely different durations in seaside resorts and summer season facilities in Agadir, Bouznika, Ifrane and Tetouan.
The Basis additionally continued to supply secure, long-term monetary assist to the kids and orphans of law enforcement officials who excel in school. A scholarship of 10,000 dirhams, over a five-year interval of educational research, was awarded to 36 college students, with a view to increasing the bottom of beneficiaries of this program on a periodic foundation, to succeed in 60 beneficiaries per 12 months within the close to future. As well as, monetary rewards had been handed to 116 college students who obtained excessive averages within the baccalaureate exams.
In assist of social initiatives, the Mohammed VI Basis for the Social Works of Nationwide Safety Civil Servants has signed partnership and cooperation agreements with insurance coverage corporations, clinics and nationwide companies, aimed toward giving law enforcement officials and their dependents entry to well being and business companies at preferential charges, together with a partnership settlement protecting entry at lowered price to companies provided by two Web and phone service suppliers. These partnerships are along with these signed in recent times, enabling DGSN household to profit from business, well being and insurance coverage companies at preferential charges.
With regard to different fundamental well being companies, DGSN Well being Providers Inspectorate has been working over the previous 12 months on the event of the “Well being 2026” motion plan, which features a new imaginative and prescient for the administration of well being companies underneath the authority of the safety forces, involving assist for proactive and preventive initiatives, the activation of well being management operations, and the diversification of fundamental and specialised medical provision for the good thing about police personnel.
Through the 12 months underneath overview, 184,378 medical consultations and interventions had been carried out for law enforcement officials, together with 65,127 common medical consultations, 44,279 occupational drugs consultations, 7,716 specialist consultations, 20,779 dental remedies and seven,196 psychological assist consultations.
As well as, the DGSN well being companies inspectorate carried out 1,261 medical management visits to police custody services and detention facilities for minors underneath judicial investigation, to verify on the hygiene circumstances of those people subjected to measures proscribing their freedom in the course of the preliminary part of the trial.
Moreover, 2023 was marked by the continuation of the strategy aimed toward strengthening and diversifying healthcare provision at regional stage, by the equipping and opening of DGSN well being heart in Casablanca, a decentralized well being construction designed to supply medical companies and consultations, in addition to first help to law enforcement officials and members of their households.
This construction reinforces the vary of built-in medical companies provided by the opposite central and regional well being facilities, together with DGSN radiology and medical evaluation heart in Rabat, inaugurated in 2019 by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, might God help Him.
Through the course of this 12 months, the Heart, which has undergone main work to increase its companies and services, now includes three built-in buildings devoted to radiology and medical evaluation, in addition to a day-care heart offering medical consultations in a wide range of specialties.
The middle is supplied with a microbiology laboratory (detection of micro organism, fungi, parasites and viruses), a biochemistry and immunology laboratory, a haematology laboratory, and a COVID-19 diagnostic unit.
As well as, this construction has radiology models outfitted with superior digital know-how, together with scanners, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, and mammography for breast most cancers screening…and so forth.
The middle additionally has a multi-purpose care unit providing a variety of free specialist medical consultations, protecting endoctrinology, cardiology, pneumology, pediatrics and gynecology. It additionally presents medical consultations in surgical specialties reminiscent of orthopedic surgical procedure and neurosurgery, in addition to common surgical procedure, dentistry, psychiatric follow-up, physiotherapy, transport and medical help.
In assist of well being initiatives, the Normal Directorate of Nationwide Safety allotted distinctive monetary help this 12 months to 269 civil servants, to the tune of 20,000 dirhams for every beneficiary, to assist these struggling or whose family are affected by critical sicknesses to fulfill the remedy prices. This help has been multiplied a number of occasions in recent times, benefiting 85 individuals in 2021 and 126 beneficiaries in 2022, to succeed in 269 beneficiaries this 12 months.
Sixth: Safety Communication: A Mechanism for Reinforcing the Feeling of Security
In 2023, DGSN sought to diversify and strengthen safety communication mechanisms with a view to reinforcing the sensation of security, supporting the work of operational safety companies, and highlighting the safety measures adopted throughout main occasions organized within the Kingdom.
On this respect, the safety communication companies carried out a complete of 4,955 communication actions, together with 1,488 info missions, divided between press releases and data on safety service points and crimes affecting the sense of security, in addition to the publication of 56 clarifications to counter faux information, along with producing 2,873 video reviews, in partnership with a number of nationwide and worldwide tv channels and media.
Within the area of digital communication, DGSN companies disseminated 538 objects of content material by way of their accounts on the assorted social networks to make clear the truth of sure crimes and counter faux information, notably these linked to the implications of the earthquake that struck some areas of the Excessive Atlas.
The common work of police companies was additionally supported, with the variety of subscribers to official DGSN accounts reaching 1,127,944, together with 480,944 on X (ex-Twitter), 440,000 on Fb and 207,000 on Instagram.
The communication companies continued to publish police critiques on its digital platforms, to present everybody entry to safety info. Additionally they archived and revealed various again points to doc police historical past, with a view to digitizing again points from 1961 onwards.
Nonetheless on the digital entrance, the communications departments produced various awareness-raising movies for most people, together with a capsule on DGSN Open Days occasion and one on the police aggressive examination, in addition to different institutional content material, together with the video offered by the Kingdom of Morocco to host the 93rd session of the Interpol Normal Meeting in 2025, and the one on the sacrifices made by the general public forces in the course of the help and help operations for the victims of the Al Haouz earthquake, for which the DGSN received the prize for the most effective Arab consciousness capsule within the area of societal policing.
In reference to this pure catastrophe, the communication companies devoted a big a part of their work to monitoring down the faux information that circulated in the course of the earthquake’s aftermath administration part, and shedding gentle on the actions taken by DGSN companies to assist the victims and scale back the results of this disaster, including that the content material revealed on this topic was broadly echoed amongst residents insofar as sure posts and tweets collected greater than 290,000 views and 4,800 likes.
In 2023, DGSN additionally organized the 4th version of DGSN Open Days occasion in Fez, which coincided with the anniversary of DGSN creation. The occasion attracted an unprecedented 1,150,000 guests over 5 days, whereas the official account of the occasion on digital communication platforms was consulted by over 5 million guests.
In the identical vein, DGSN continued to implement its program to boost consciousness in colleges, bringing the variety of beneficiaries within the first half of the present faculty 12 months to 141,241 pupils in 1,816 instructional establishments. DGSN additionally held regional and native coordination and session conferences with 1,821 associations and NGOs, specializing in points linked to residents’ expectations of the safety establishment.
The communication companies additionally backed all main occasions organized in Morocco, together with the annual conferences of the IMF and the World Financial institution, the forty seventh Convention of Arab Police and Safety Chiefs, and continental and worldwide sporting occasions held in Morocco.
As well as, in 2023, the communication companies detected a complete of 260 prison contents of a violent nature, which had been subjected to the mandatory technical experience and investigations earlier than the publication of press launched and clarifications about them inside a timeframe that varies between one and 5 hours most, with a view to combating rumors and dispelling instances of emotions of insecurity that could possibly be generated by these violent contents.
Seventh: Future Tasks: Capitalizing on Safety Achievements and Consolidating Safety Cooperation
DGSN is decided to consolidate the achievements made in modernizing police infrastructures and companies, whereas on the identical time bettering them, as a way to present an satisfactory response to residents’ expectations of the general public police service. It additionally intends to strengthen and improve worldwide safety cooperation, by sharing its expertise within the combat towards terrorism and arranged crime with pleasant and companion international locations, in addition to with numerous worldwide organizations thinking about police work.
The creation of a global police coaching heart within the city of Ifrane, which can function a complicated coaching institute for Moroccan executives and their colleagues from the African continent, is among the many initiatives scheduled for implementation over the approaching 12 months, and at present within the closing levels of preparation.
Arrange as a regional and worldwide coaching hub, the middle will be capable of host coaching cycles and workshops organized by worldwide companions, for the good thing about African police and safety executives in Morocco.
The aim assigned to this worldwide heart specialised in police coaching is to implement the far-sighted Royal Imaginative and prescient aimed toward strengthening South-South cooperation relations and consolidating coordination and coaching mechanisms within the area of safety, as a way to assist the presence and affect of the Kingdom of Morocco in its African and worldwide atmosphere.
The Normal Directorate of Nationwide Safety additionally plans to generalize language instructing facilities in numerous police coaching colleges, and to good coaching strategies in sports activities safety and the administration of main occasions, as a way to strengthen police capacities and human sources {qualifications} – as a part of a short-term venture – in order that they’re prepared for the strategy of the world and continental sporting occasions that Morocco shall be internet hosting in 2025 and 2030.
With the goal of bringing police coaching institutes nearer to the houses of trainees, each women and men, and in assist of regionalization, two safety coaching colleges shall be opened subsequent 12 months in Casablanca and Marrakech, to strengthen the safety coaching scheme at present overseen by the Royal Police Institute in Kenitra and coaching colleges in Tangier, Oujda, Fez, Bouknadel, Fouarat and Laayoune.
As a part of the continued venture to digitize DGSN companies and join them to central databases, the 12 months 2024 will see the entire roll-out to all police districts of the knowledge system for the administration of prison instances and misdemeanors. It’ll additionally see the continued digitization of Judicial Police companies at nationwide stage, along with the deployment of cell groups to situation digital nationwide identification playing cards in any respect regional instructions, with the goal of bringing identification doc issuance companies nearer to individuals residing in distant areas.
With regard to assist for native buildings, DGSN plans to construct new safety facilities tailor-made to residents’ wants, together with a brand new police station at Beni Bouaayach, underneath the Al Hoceima Regional Safety, a police station on the Mohammed V Mausoleum in Rabat and the headquarters of the third police district in Rabat, in addition to establishing regional digital hint evaluation laboratories at a number of police instructions, on a decentralized foundation.
As a part of the drive to inspire civil servants, and primarily based on the DGSN’s agency perception that bettering the circumstances of its human sources is the important thing to selling police companies, a pilot clinic is to be constructed subsequent 12 months on the new DGSN headquarters, which is nearing completion. This pilot clinic will be a part of the Rabat radiology and medical evaluation heart and DGSN regional well being facilities, whose mission is to diversify the well being companies for the DGSN household.
DGSN social companies are within the strategy of finishing research to construct two trip facilities in Martil and Moulay Bouselham, within the hope of launching these social initiatives for the good thing about the DGSN household.
When it comes to safety communications, DGSN plans to prepare the fifth version of DGSN Open Days occasion in Agadir subsequent 12 months, to coincide with the commemoration of the 68th anniversary of DGSN creation, as a part of its ongoing strategy to speaking with residents in all areas of the Kingdom.
In conclusion, DGSN, in reviewing these snippets from its annual report on points that intersect with citizen safety and the preservation of their integrity and property, reaffirms its dedication to persevering with its efforts to consolidate public security, reinforce the sensation of safety and enhance the companies supplied to residents, resident foreigners and vacationers, along with bettering skilled and social circumstances for the good thing about all members of the DGSN household.
MAP: 26 December 2023
