Rabat – The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) is determined, in 2024, to consolidate the achievements made in modernizing police infrastructures and services, while at the same time improving them, in order to provide an adequate response to citizens’ expectations of the public police service.
This institution also intends to strengthen and enhance international security cooperation, by sharing its experience in the fight against terrorism and organized crime with friendly and partner countries, as well as with various international organizations interested in police work, DGSN points out in a press release on its results for 2023.
The creation of an international police training center in the town of Ifrane, which will serve as an advanced training institute for Moroccan executives and their colleagues from the African continent, is among the projects scheduled for implementation over the coming year, and currently in the final stages of preparation, the same source adds.
Set up as a regiona
l and international training hub, the center will be able to host training cycles and workshops organized by international partners, for the benefit of African police and security executives in Morocco.
The goal assigned to this international center specialized in police training is to implement the far-sighted Royal Vision aimed at strengthening South-South cooperation relations and consolidating coordination and training mechanisms in the field of security, in order to support the presence and influence of the Kingdom of Morocco in its African and international environment.
The General Directorate of National Security also plans to generalize language teaching centers in various police training schools, and to perfect training techniques in sports security and the management of major events, in order to strengthen police capacities and human resources qualifications – as part of a short-term project – so that they are ready for the approach of the world and continental sporting events that Morocco will be
hosting in 2025 and 2030.
With the aim of bringing police training institutes closer to the homes of trainees, both men and women, and in support of regionalization, two security training schools will be opened next year in Casablanca and Marrakech, to reinforce the security training scheme currently overseen by the Royal Police Institute in Kenitra and training schools in Tangier, Oujda, Fez, Bouknadel, Fouarat and Laayoune.
As part of the ongoing project to digitize DGSN services and connect them to central databases, the year 2024 will see the complete roll-out to all police districts of the information system for the management of criminal cases and misdemeanors. It will also see the continued digitization of Judicial Police services at national level, in addition to the deployment of mobile teams to issue electronic national identity cards at all regional commands, with the aim of bringing identity document issuance services closer to people living in remote areas.
With regard to support for local str
uctures, DGSN plans to build new security centers tailored to citizens’ needs, including a new police station at Beni Bouaayach, under the Al Hoceima Regional Security, a police station at the Mohammed V Mausoleum in Rabat and the headquarters of the 3rd police district in Rabat, as well as setting up regional digital trace analysis laboratories at several police commands, on a decentralized basis.
As part of the drive to motivate civil servants, and based on the DGSN’s firm belief that improving the conditions of its human resources is the key to promoting police services, a pilot clinic is to be built next year at the new DGSN headquarters, which is nearing completion. This pilot clinic will join the Rabat radiology and medical analysis center and DGSN regional health centers, whose mission is to diversify the health services for the DGSN family.
DGSN social services are in the process of completing studies to build two vacation centers in Martil and Moulay Bouselham, in the hope of launching these social
projects for the benefit of the DGSN family.
In terms of security communications, the DGSN plans to organize the fifth edition of DGSN Open Days event in Agadir next year, to coincide with the commemoration of the 68th anniversary of DGSN creation, as part of its ongoing approach to communicating with citizens in all regions of the Kingdom.
In conclusion, the DGSN, in reviewing these snippets from its annual report on aspects that intersect with citizen security and the preservation of their integrity and property, reaffirms its commitment to continuing its efforts to consolidate public safety, reinforce the feeling of security and improve the services provided to citizens, resident foreigners and tourists, in addition to improving professional and social conditions for the benefit of all members of the DGSN family.
Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse