Construction works have reached a completion rate of 90% on a large part of the outbuildings and equipment of this facility, which is due to be officially inaugurated during 2025 according to the initial schedule.
As part of the drive to strengthen local policing structures and provide support for urban sprawl services in new urban centers, the DGSN has created 19 new security structures this year, according to the DGSN's 2024 annual report.
These include supporting the urban sprawl of the city of Nador by upgrading the city's provincial security district to a regional district and reinforcing this new structure with logistical, human and operational resources, in addition to creating four new police districts in Al Hoceima, Souk Sebt Ouled Nema, Fès-Ville and Sidi Youssef Ben Ali in Marrakech.
In 2024, the DGSN inaugurated a new command and coordination room at the Kenitra police prefecture, with a view to strengthening community policing. This is an integral security structure for the management of field operations and the implementation of several operational missions such as road safety, police-rescue and urban control by cameras.
This structure will complement the mobile police rescue brigade set up in Kenitra in 2023, to operate on a 7/7 and 24/24 basis, ensuring that all calls for help from citizens are answered as quickly as possible and within deadlines that are constantly monitored by the relevant departments at central and regional levels.
As part of the same policy of strengthening field units to respond to citizens' calls for help, the Marrakech police prefecture's police-rescue units have been reinforced, with the creation of two mobile motorcycle brigades in the Marrakech-Menara and Marrakech-Gueliz security districts.
In the same vein, the DGSN has launched integrated projects to strengthen the main command and coordination center at the Casablanca police headquarters, through a mobile police-rescue brigade, which will be equipped with substantial logistical and human resources through the training of dozens of police officers. This brigade shall cover the Casablanca urban hub, which includes 13 police districts.
To keep pace with the densification of road traffic, the DGSN launched six new traffic accident reporting units in the cities of Marrakech, Casablanca, Salé and Kenitra, and created five road traffic units covering the police districts of the Marrakech police prefecture.
These units and all similar teams nationwide will soon be equipped with over 180 new-generation speed control radars, in partnership with the National Road Safety Agency (NARSA).
As part of the preparations for the major sporting events to be held in the Kingdom starting next year, the sports units in the cities of Rabat, Marrakech, Fez, Agadir and Tangier, which will be hosting 2025 African Cup of Nations matches, have been upgraded to prefectoral sports security brigades, while reinforcing them with qualified human resources and the necessary logistical and transport equipment.
In the same vein, the DGSN set up a “prefectural sports security service” in Casablanca, a major milestone in establishing a Moroccan model for securing international football matches.
In 2024, the DGSN created several new police structures to support the expansion and densification of traffic at sea and air border crossings. These include police stations at the Tan-Tan seaport, Moulay Ali Cherif airport in Rissani and Zagora airport, which are security structures dedicated both to border police missions and to securing air and sea transport buildings and equipment.
2024 also saw the continuation of efforts to reinforce territorial units with specialized brigades, including the creation of three dog-handling brigades at the Casablanca Police Prefecture, the Al Hoceima Regional Security and the Safi Provincial Security, as well as the creation of the mobile catering unit belonging to the GMS 99 mobile security group.
This is a mobile unit equipped with canteens and mobile kitchen equipment, designed to provide autonomous catering services for mobile brigades during major law enforcement operations and in remote areas and difficult-to-access terrain.
In addition, the DGSN is further rolling out the new generation of weapons and functional equipment used in security operations to neutralize offensive individuals or those who refuse to obey police officers, while preserving their physical integrity and protecting police officers.
Thus, the “BOLAWRAP” alternative weapon was introduced in the regional security services of Taza, Ouarzazate, Al Hoceima and Nador, and in the provincial security services of El Jadida and Safi, which were equipped with dozens of this weapon.
In addition, some 14 police commands have been equipped with a total of 560 “TASER-7” tasers. To date, more than 117 security interventions have been carried out using this new functional equipment, an increase of 194.5% compared with 2023.