I do wonder if the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice are using a real polling company—there are several in Saudi Arabia—or this is a survey they’ve created and will conduct themselves. Depending on which it is, there are likely to be very different answers, though even asking people about the religious police is going to result in spurious answers, those that the interviewee thinks the interviewer wants to hear.

Hai’a conducts opinion survey
Hazim Al-Mutairi

RIYADH – The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai’a) spokesman Dr. Abdulmohsin Al-Qaffari said the Hai’a is surveying the opinion of the public on its performance through field teams. Al-Qaffari said people, Saudis and expatriates, were found to understand the Hai’a’s role in dealing with several issues like sorcery and blackmailing. – Okaz/SG