Hundreds of newly trained police women graduate

(9 Apr 2005) 1. Colonel Ghalibaf, Chief Commander of Iranian disciplinary forces (police), salutes as he inspects the lines of police women 2. Police women standing and chanting slogans 3. Ghalibaf giving police woman arm band and saluting them 4. Policewomen, in black robes, scaling down a building using rope 5. Policewomen in cars driving past in mock chase 6. Police woman getting “ suspect“ out of car and arresting them 7. Police woman setting off a small explosion 8. Various of police women putting guns together with their eyes closed STORYLINE: A graduation ceremony was held for around 400 newly trained female police officers in Tehran on Wednesday. The ceremony was attended by Iran’s police chief, Colonel Ghalibaf, who recently resigned to run for president in the June elections. The new female recruits have begun working on the streets of Tehran alongside their male counterparts. They are the first fully trained police women to graduate from the police university since the revolution in 1979. Aged between 17 and 23 years old, they have spent the last three years training at a complex in Tehran, the Iranian capital. Their training included attending intensive military courses, learning judo, fencing, using firearms and laying mines. Their uniform is inspired by Islamic European and African countries, which includes long trousers and a long coat. The female officers must still wear a chador ( the full length black robes) in the streets, but may remove them inside the police station. Find out more about AP Archive: Twitter: Facebook: ​​ Instagram: You can license this story through AP Archive: