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"For months, I am overwhelmed by the workload." "I deal with 5 business at the same time", said detective. Divorces, infidelity, missing persons, fraud, forgery and use of forgeries, cheques wooden... the list is long. "I have treated more than one hundred business since I started to exercise 8 years ago," he continued.

Although a recent activity in the Morocco, the investigation of the detectives in business gaining ground. "From 5 000Dhs, can clear the field, verify the suspicion and switch to tangible evidence", said detective. "Lawyers often send me clients looking for concrete evidence to expedite the process of divorce."

"Sometimes, just a few good photos and the round is played to win the trial," said an another detective who prefers to remain anonymous.

Without MIC or camera at night as in American films, the investigators are the case. Couple problems, including adultery, cut the lion's share of of cases handled so far. These files represent 90% of the turnover of the cabinet of Taghi detective.

As such, women constitute the overwhelming majority of the customer. Except that the use of the services of a private detective is not a routine reflex for couple Affairs. Opinions differ among women: "If my husband wrong me, I prefer not to know." "It is therefore unthinkable for me to use the services of a detective", shows a casablancaise young. Others, however, see no problem, as long as it can reveal the truth.

Abdessamad Taghi, as his colleague Rachid Mounacifi, private detective in Marrakech, says that he is also sought by companies: investigations on the CV, stolen goods, possession of stolen property, competition, recovery... are all treated cases. Detectives, European, foreign agencies seek their help, especially for cases of disappearance on Moroccan territory.

But to carry out their missions and intervene on the ground, private investigators are required to have a close relationship with the police. Often, inspectors and detectives team and speakers together. "We have a fairly close cooperation with the police for information, but not officially of course", said Mounacifi.

Except that some agents do not a good Ïil detective activity. They prefer the way formal and classical. "Only the police is empowered to conduct investigations. "If it is to make this kind of activity, it will be total anarchy with unnecessary risk taken," warns a young police officer that the passage by the Academy remains indispensable. However, the Moroccan "Colombo" argue their skills. Generally, they are alumni of national security, the army or the officers who made a career in security, especially abroad. They usually have quite different routes. Taghi, for example, began in security to the Morocco. To perfect his knowledge, he had to follow une formation, sanctioned by a Belgian diploma.

Rachid Mounacifi, he made a long career in the security in Sweden. In 2004, he decided to return to the country to mount a security and guarding company in Marrakech. Mounacifi is also President of the Professional Association of the Morocco security agencies.

But the more atypical route returned to Myriam Marzak, first and only woman detective to the Morocco. After a Bachelor's degree at the lycée Lyautey Casablanca, Marzak part study in France. Montpellier, she enrolled in the Faculty of medicine and at the same time began training in research and investigation for private investigators. In 1991, it incorporates a French Department, as an agent of investigation, because of its dual Moroccan nationality. A year after his hiring, elle is detached to follow une continuing education to the Canada. In North America as it sharpens its weapons in addition to the courses of tracking, spinning, interpersonal, photography and law, Marzak is training in the military services. In 2003, she has more than 10 years of experience and decided to return to the Morocco to invest, with her husband, in a security and guarding company in Casablanca.

Legal status:

Lack of legal framework, detectives had to anticipate and circumvent the law by creating security companies. The new activity has taken short Parliament which has not yet concocted a dedicated text. "I contacted all the institutions concerned, General Secretariat of the Government, Ministry of the Interior for the regularization of our activity, in vain," said Taghi. In the meantime, it is the blur: "the trade is permitted, or prohibited", he added. Officially, they are "agents of research and investigation". Authority to exercise is issued by the Ministry of the Interior. This legal vacuum increases the resistance to the development of this activity. For some, "it is a violation of freedom and privacy of the people." A testimony corroborated by the opinion of a casablancaise young: "this does not correspond to our traditions". , Des Marocains, a Moroccan Marocains des des des mémoire des des mémoire memory influenced by clichés Holmes... is also for many. At the time, activity is perceived as an intrusion.

As expenses exclude much of the population. Private detective services are not accessible to everyone. Costs of an investigation varies on average between 5,000 and 7 000Dhs. They can reach high enough amounts depending on the duration, the nature of the inquiry and the difficulty of the investigation.