Second Training Session for Police Officers Responsible for Detainees in DGSN Custody Facilities
The National Human Rights Council (CNDH) and the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) are actively implementing the terms of their partnership agreement, which is designed to enhance and develop the capacities of DGSN officers responsible for persons in custody in DGSN places of deprivation of liberty. The two institutions are organizing a training session from 4 to 8 September 2023 at the Rabat - Driss Benzekri Institute for Human Rights in Morocco.
The partnership agreement, signed on 14 September 2022, by Ms. Amina Bouayach, CNDH Chairperson, and Mr. Abdellatif Hammouchi, Director General of National Security and Territory Surveillance, aims to promote human rights culture into police training curricula, making it a reference and guiding framework for the missions of national security law enforcement officials.
Ms. Amina Bouayach and Mr. Mohamed Dkhissi, Central Director of the DGSN Judicial Police, will inaugurate the opening session of this event.
Officials from CNDH and DGSN will facilitate this training session, focusing on several key topics, including Human Rights Principles and Practices, Morocco's Conventional Practice and International Commitments, Constitutional and Legal Requirements - Principle of the Supremacy of International Conventions and Harmonization of Legislation, Rights and Conditions of Individuals in Custody, Monitoring, Preventive Measures and Redress Bodies, and International Bodies.
CNDH and DGSN initiated this partnership by organizing an international symposium entitled "Standards and Practices for the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment during Arrest, Interrogation, and Custody" on Tuesday 20 September 2022, at the Royal Institute of Police in Rabat, Morocco.
They also organized the inaugural training session for around 20 police officials (from different Moroccan regions) responsible for places of deprivation of liberty, from 26 to 30 September 2022, at the Rabat - Driss Benzekri Institute for Human Rights in Morocco.