Career
He was deputy commander of the Iranian police and as Tehran"s police chief, infamous for his crackdown on "unIslamic" hair and dress style. He also held various posts in the Islamic Republic of Iran Police (IRIP), including as police commander of Razavi Khorasan Province. Radan is well known for his actions on Islamic dress code and distribution of illegal drugs as well as controlling thug gangs.
In his commanding years, he made four of major provinces of Iran much safer and more secure.
He served as police commander of Kurdistan Province, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Khorasan Province, and also Tehran Province, the most important province in Iran. In 2007, Ahmad-Reza Radan launched a "Public Security Plan".
The police arrested dozens of "thugs" to increase public security. The thugs were sometimes beaten on camera in front of neighborhood inhabitants, or forced to wear hanging watering cans used for lavatory ablutions around their necks.
Among the arrested people was Meysam Lotfi, a young Iranian who was previously arrested during Iran student riots in July 1999 and jailed for 6 months.
His former lawyer was Abdolfattah Soltani.