On 13 June 2014 Arroub was appointed by king Mohammed VI into this position after the sudden death of General Abdelaziz Bennani.

[8] After the failure of the coup, Hassan II was informed of the incident by Lamia Solh, the king then replied "You mean that he was part of the plotters?

[8] Arroub would be excluded from any position of responsibility for the following twenty years or so, before Hassan II appointed him as chief of the third bureau in 1988.

[8] On the day of the death of Hassan II, Arroub and general Housni Benslimane reportedly had Driss Basri, then minister of the interior, briefly detained and questioned.

[9] On 4 June 2014, a few days before the appointment of his father as the new Inspector General, Mohamed Ramses Arroub was excluded from this position by the board of the insurance company, which cited "personal reasons" for this decision.