Morocco: Large-scale movement of appointments within the police

Abdellatif Hammouchi, Director General of National Security, made a series of important appointments as part of the strategy of consolidating the principle of rotation of positions of responsibility and promoting young skills to assume security management responsibilities.

In total, 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 confirmed by the Director General of National Security. At the central level, we note the appointment of a new head of the administrative investigations and complaints processing division under the General Inspectorate. At the decentralized level, a police officer was appointed head of the regional security department of the city of Khemisset. A position he had previously held on an interim basis. Bouznika now has a new police chief. The appointment of a head of the regional division of the judicial police was confirmed in Salé, that of an interim head of the regional police station in Targuist and of a head of the general intelligence brigade in Bouarfa as well.