Superintendent Saâdou Boubacar Cissé

Deputy |

Niger

Head of Passport Department

Ministry of the Interior, Public Security and Territorial Administration

Superintendent Saâdou Boubacar Cissé is Head of the Passport Department at the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST), National Police Headquarters. He has spent his entire professional career working in the field of personal identification, legal identity and the use of biometrics to improve the handling of people at border controls and elsewhere. From 2010 to date, he has twice been Head of the Travel Documents and Titles Division, Head of the Cybercrime Division and finally Head of the Passports Department. He is one of the National Experts in Biometrics, E-Documents and Cybercrime. A senior officer of the Niger National Police, he holds a higher technical diploma (DTS) in Industrial and Electronic Computing and a Masters in Security, Inter-Army Coordination and International Cooperation from SAPIENZA University in Rome, Italy.