Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has announced the abolition of the vice squad by the relevant authorities, Isna news agency reported on Sunday.
“The vice police have nothing to do with the judiciary and they have been abolished by those who created them,” he said in the holy city of Qom on Saturday night.
During a religious conference, the Attorney General answered a question from an attendee who asked him “why the vice squad was shut down.”
The deputy police force, known as Gasht-e Ershad (lead patrols), was created under ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to “spread the culture of decency and hijab.”
It consists of men in green uniforms and women wearing the black chador, which covers the head and upper body.
This unit began its first patrols in 2006.