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Iran to Launch Police Stations for Women   

Agence France-Presse - 07 December, 2007

Iran plans to set up police stations run by women officers in the Islamic republic’s capital to deal only with offences committed by women, the Tehran Emrouz newspaper reported yesterday.


Fariba Shayegan, commander of the capital’s women police academy of Kowsar, was quoted as saying that the authorities plan “probably to set up special police stations for women in Tehran.”


Two such police stations have already been launched in the religious, northeastern, city of Mashad, she said.


Women police officers, who previously had been seen mostly in administrative departments, have been increasingly involved over the past few years in enforcement of observing Islamic rules in the treatment of female criminals.

 





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