HIBAPRESS – Ifrane
The Director-General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, inaugurated the Higher Institute of Security Sciences in the city of Ifrane on Friday, December 5, 2025, which came to strengthen and develop the security training system in Morocco.
The opening ceremony was attended by foreign and national partners in the field of academic training and police training, including Dr. Abdulmajid bin Abdullah Al-Bunyan, President of Naif Arab University for Security Sciences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Major General Rashid Mohammed Boursheid, Director of the "Saif bin Zayed" Academy for Security and Police Sciences affiliated with the General Command of Abu Dhabi Police, as well as many heads of national universities and academic institutes.
Also present at the inauguration of the Higher Institute of Security Sciences were Mohamed Abdennabaoui, First President of the Court of Cassation and Deputy President of the Supreme Council of the Judicial Authority, the Wali of the Fes-Meknes region, the governor of Ifrane province, the governor of Al-Hajeb province, and the foreign liaison officers accredited in Morocco.
The Higher Institute of Security Sciences is a new academic institute, established in the context of implementing the future vision of the General Directorate of National Security regarding the development of police training curricula and adapting them to the new security challenges and stakes, as well as establishing sustainable partnerships in the field of training with national and international training institutes and institutions.
This specialized higher institute comes to strengthen and support the security training system in Morocco, which is undertaken by the Royal Police Institute in Kenitra and the various regional police schools, where it will be entrusted with organizing training courses, scientific workshops, and a partnership program with international and national institutes, with the aim of training security leaders and building the capacities of police cadres and frameworks in the security fields.
The main goal of the Higher Institute of Security Sciences is to prepare security cadres who possess a proactive vision and high technical competence, capable of interacting intelligently with the rapid transformations that the world is experiencing in the fields of security, artificial intelligence, digitization, and modern technologies, while consolidating a culture of respecting the principles of human rights, preserving individual and collective freedoms, and ensuring the dignity of the citizen in all stages of security work.
To achieve these desired goals, scientific knowledge has been integrated with field practice in the training programs approved by the Higher Institute of Security Sciences, in addition to harnessing science and new technologies to serve security, which enables the preparation of qualified security competencies that possess a professional sense, the ability to analyze, and make appropriate decisions in the most complex situations.
In order to benefit from the leading security experiences in the field of police training, a partnership agreement has been concluded between the Higher Institute of Security Sciences and Naif Arab University for Security Sciences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is responsible for training security leaders at the Arab level in the doctoral and master's programs in various technical, scientific, legal, and security specializations.
This agreement aims to strengthen the areas of joint cooperation to ensure the support of contributions and initiatives aimed at developing regional and national policies and programs in the areas of monitoring and combating crime and preventing it, enhancing scientific research and innovation, and conducting joint studies and research in various security specializations, exchanging experiences between the two parties in academic, research, and training programs, seminars, forums, conferences, and workshops, as well as supporting and strengthening the establishment of an Arab network for experts and researchers in the fields related to monitoring and combating crime and preventing it.
It is worth mentioning that the Higher Institute of Security Sciences, which was inaugurated today in the city of Ifrane, has been equipped with training facilities, a translation center and language proficiency, indoor and outdoor sports spaces, accommodation and catering places, a medical clinic, and shooting simulation rooms and police interventions in difficult conditions, in a way that allows providing an integrated training environment that allows learning and training in the best conditions.
