{"id":3788,"date":"2018-08-16T12:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T12:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/algeria-nefis-khider-algerian-police-after-the-purge-a-restructuring-middle-east-eye-29th-of-july-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T12:48:27","slug":"algeria-nefis-khider-algerian-police-after-the-purge-a-restructuring-middle-east-eye-29th-of-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/algeria-nefis-khider-algerian-police-after-the-purge-a-restructuring-middle-east-eye-29th-of-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"ALGERIA: Nefis Khider, “Algerian police: After the purge, a restructuring”, Middle East Eye, 29th of July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

A powerful police boss has been dismissed; six security chiefs from Algeria’s wilayat<\/em> (regions) have been sacked; the director of the border police and the director of the General Intelligence (RG) have been fired; and 30 of the country’s 48 police transmissions directors have been removed from their posts.<\/h1>\n

In less than a month<\/strong>, Algerian police \u2013 the largest security corps in the country, also known as the Directorate General for National Security (DGSN) \u2013 has sustained violent<\/strong> tremors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The snowball effect began with the sudden dismissal of Major General Abdelghani Hamel<\/strong>, 62, on 26 June, in the wake of a major cocaine seizure by the Algerian army off the coast of Oran.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On 29 May, navy special forces a launched an operation on a ship from Spain, only to discover 701kg of cocaine on board, presumed to have come from Brazil.<\/p>\n

Reacting to a leak in the press accusing his own personal driver of having ties with the alleged dealer \u2013 an influential Algerian meat importer \u2013 Hamel puzzled the public by declaring:<\/p>\n

“If you want to fight corruption, you need to be clean yourself.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few hours later, the police boss was dismissed, to everyone’s astonishment.<\/strong> Who would have suspected that this faithful supporter of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika could have been so brutally let go? Few in Algiers would have predicted this, especially given that a number of foreign analysts and diplomats had hypothesised that Hamel could become a potential successor to Bouteflika, whose frail health has been the topic of conjecture for years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, Hamel’s statement cast doubt on the investigators in charge of the case, strongly displeasing decision-making circles.<\/p>\n

“The cohesion of security bodies and institutions must remain a priority to face the various challenges at hand – namely combating corruption, which is taking on alarming dimensions and affecting nerve centres within the state itself,” a high-ranking source had told Middle East Eye at the time. “This will not go unpunished.”<\/p>\n

Continue reading: https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/algerian-police-after-purge-restructuring-527714674<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A powerful police boss has been dismissed; six security chiefs from Algeria’s wilayat (regions) have been sacked; the director of the border police and the director of the General Intelligence (RG) have been fired; and 30 of the country’s 48 police transmissions directors have been removed from their posts. In less than a month, Algerian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lemaghreb.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}