Commission Passes Bill on Iranian Police Use of Firearms
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A commission of the Iranian Parliament has approved a bill that would reform regulations on the use of firearms by the law enforcement forces, an MP said.
The spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission told Tasnim on Monday that the commission has passed the bill on the reform of the law on the use of firearms by the law enforcement forces.
Mahmoud Abbaszadeh said the bill will be submitted to the Parliament’s presiding board for a vote in a plenary session.
In February, an Iranian police officer was killed in the line of duty in the southern city of Shiraz.
Colonel Ali Akbar Ranjbar had been injured during a confrontation with a group of gangsters, but refrained from using his handgun.
He later succumbed to machete wounds.
