Charki Draiss is a career civil servant and worked at the Ministry of Interior since he graduated with a degree in political science in 1977. He was Caid, Provincial then Regional Governor and was nominated in 2006 as the head the "DGSN" (French: Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure; General Directorate of National Security), Morocco's chief body for internal security.[1][3][4][5][6]