Law enforcement in Iran
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Law enforcement in Iran. About 40,000 police serve under the Ministry of Interior, including border patrol personnel. The Police-110 unit specializes in rapid-response activities in urban areas and dispersing gatherings deemed dangerous to public order. Marine police have 90 inshore patrol and 40 harbor boats. In 2003 some 400 women became the first female members of the police force since the 1978–79 Iranian Revolution.[1]
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- ^ Text used in this cited section originally came from: Iran (March 2006) profile from the Library of Congress Country Studies project.
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- This article contains material from the Library of Congress Country Studies, which are United States government publications in the public domain.
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