Morocco’s General Delegate for Prison Administration and Reintegration, Mohamed Saleh Tamek kickstarted a training program on Tuesday to combat violent extremism in prisons.
The two-year program that runs from 2024 to 2026 is co-funded by the United Kingdom and Canada. It is designed to enhance the capabilities of prison psychologists in preventing and managing violent extremism among inmates.
The program focuses on individual case assessments to address signs of radicalization during imprisonment, allowing specialists to make informed decisions tailored to each case.
The initiative builds on a previous collaboration between the General Delegation and the same center from 2017 to 2020, which trained 10,000 staff across 78 prisons using “peer training” and developed a guide on combating violent extremism within prisons.
Isabelle Valois, the Canadian Ambassador to Morocco, Simon Martin, the British Ambassador to Morocco, and Eelco Kessels, Executive Director of the Global Center on Cooperative Security all attended the kick off.