Police Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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The Police Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran (abbreviated as Faraja or Naja) is the uniformed police force of Iran. It was created in early 1992 by merging the Shahrbani, the Iranian Gendarmerie, and the Islamic Revolutionary Committees into a single force. It has more than 260,000 police personnel, including border guard personnel, and is under the direct control of the supreme leader, who is the head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. In 2003, some 400 women became the first female members of the police force since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The Guidance Patrol, commonly called the "morality police", was a vice squad/Islamic religious police in the Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran, established in 2005 with the task of arresting people who violate the Islamic dress code, usually concerning the wearing by women of hijabs covering their hair. Though still legally in existence its activities were suspended in the aftermath of the 2022 Mahsa Amini...

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