Official Islamic vice squad police agencies which enforce religious observance and public morality on behalf of national or regional authorities based on its interpretation of sharia.
They are called the Gashte Ershad, the "guidance patrol," and they have broad powers to scold and arrest people for failing to meet the modesty test.
[3] The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is a group which is part of the police forces of the Hamas' de facto government in the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip.
The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is a Saudi government religious authority charged with implementing the Islamic doctrine of hisbah.
[4] According to an article in The Independent in 2016, "Israel's Culture Ministry is to introduce new rules about how modestly performers should dress at government-sponsored events.