General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance

General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance
المديرية العامة لمراقبة التراب الوطني
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Direction Général de Surveillance du Térritoire
Seal of the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance
Agency overview
Formed12 January 1973; 51 years ago (1973-01-12)
Preceding agency
JurisdictionGovernment of Morocco
HeadquartersTemara, Morocco
Employees9,000 (2019 estimate)[1]
Annual budget1,1 billion dirhams (2016)[2]
Minister responsible
Agency executive
Parent agencyMinistry of Interior
Footnotes
Building details
Headquarters of the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance's Central Bureau for Judiciary Investigations in Salé

The General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (Arabic: المديرية العامة لمراقبة التراب الوطني; Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵎⵀⵍⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵜⴰⵢⵜ ⵏ ⵓⵎⴰⵜⵔ ⵏ ⵡⴰⴽⴰⵍ ⴰⵏⴰⵎⵓⵔ; French: Direction Général de Surveillance du Térritoire; DGST), is the civilian domestic intelligence service of Morocco. It is tasked with the monitoring and anticipation of potentially subversive domestic activities.

Since 2005, the DGST is led by Abdellatif Hammouchi, who also runs the country's national police force, the Sûreté Nationale (DGSN).

The DGST was previously known as the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST).

  1. ^ "LA DGST-DGSN EN ACTION". www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  2. ^ "Loi de Finances 2016: plus de 6,5 milliards de DH alloués à l'Intérieur et la DGST". Le 360 Français (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-27.