Determining the Position and Role of Economic Security Police in Achieving the Objectives of the Second Step of the Islamic Revolution of Iran

The Economic Security Police, one of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s police units acting as the Judiciary law enforcement arm, has a background of countering crimes and criminals among crime detection police in its record and performs its duties as the newest crime detection establishment in the fields of economic crimes and combating against goods and currency smuggling and detecting and maintaining different crime evidence, arresting culprits and criminals and preventing them from escaping and hiding, as well. The Supreme Leader has pointed to the issue of economy in the Second Step of the Islamic Revolution and ascertained the method of achieving Resistance Economic Objectives, police duties, particularly the duties of the Economic Security Police in countering currency and goods smuggling and economic crimes, as well. Therefore; according to the Second Step of the Islamic Revolution communiqué, the indexes of the Resistance Economy and achieving its objectives require a Jihadi approach, resiliency, opportunity making, generative, internal, pioneer and external matters. Therefore; economic factors are the essential factors for all the society structures and have considerable effects on individual activities such as the occurrence of crimes. Since the issue of economy (Resistance Economy) has been in the spotlight in our country in recent years, the present research is an effort in this regard. This Article attempts to review and investigate, from the Second Step of the Revolution perspective, the role of Resistance Economy in the economic growth through combating against goods smuggling and the position of police in the Islamic Revolution in achieving this important issue.