Casablanca Urban Video Surveillance Network

The city and its region paid for the cameras; the national police runs them. The budget climbed from 460 million dirhams to roughly 1.2 billion, and the only public numbers are the police's own.

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A citywide CCTV network financed by Casablanca's own institutions - the Casablanca-Settat regional council, the city council and the local development company Casa Transport - but built and operated by the national police (DGSN), not the municipality. After a 2016 international tender (to Spain's COMSA-Sice) and a missed target of 3,000 cameras by 2020 (only about 600 were installed), the effort was recentralised around a central command and coordination post inaugurated at the Casablanca police prefecture on 7 April 2022: a 40-screen wall wired to 210 HD 360-degree cameras covering major arteries and junctions for traffic control and urban security, with a plan to expand toward roughly 650-700 cameras across about 330 sites. Primary coverage describes traffic and perimeter monitoring only; facial recognition, plate recognition and AI analytics are not documented for this fixed network. The budget escalated from an initial 460 million dirhams to roughly 1.2 billion. No independent evaluation of any crime-reduction effect exists; the only outside scrutiny is critical - Morocco's data-protection law (09-08) exempts security agencies from oversight.