Morocco’s National Police (DGSN) mobile units have created 11,048 electronic national identity cards, which are being provided free of charge to residents in rural and urban areas affected by the September 8 earthquake, including Marrakech, Chichaoua, Al Haouz, Demnate, Inzegane, Taroudant, and Ouarzazate.
The program is designed to assist displaced residents who lost their personal documents due to a collapsed home, for example, in obtaining benefits and conducting other matters where national identity cards are essential, such as accessing public services. The program collects basic identifying data from earthquake victims where they are to speed up the renewal and issuance process.
The DGSN program covers 73 villages, rural areas, and urban regions affected by the earthquake. 5,304 electronic national identity cards were created for residents in the Taroudant province and its rural municipalities, 2,461 for the Amerzgane area of the Ouarzazate region, 1,442 for Al Haouz, 1,298 for Demnate, 457 for Chichaoua, and 86 for the old medina of Marrakech.
The operation began on October 4th and is now in its second phase of delivering electronic national identity cards to citizens in the communities near their homes. To facilitate this process, the DGSN has deployed 13 vehicles functioning as mobile centers for registering identity data. These vehicles are equipped with a photography studio and digital devices for collecting biometric data that are connected in real-time to centralized databases.
As of October 29th, 9,647 electronic cards (87%) had been distributed.