Ghafari, Director General of Public Relations and Media Administration at the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai'a), has said the Hai'a is currently cooperating with a number of consultants and lawmakers to produce a guidebook defining the rights and obligations of its employees and a job description for its staff members. Al-Ghafari said that the guidebook was part of a program introduced three years ago. A study of the program entitled “The Development of Field Work” was assigned to the King Abdullah Institute of King Saud University in Riyadh. He said all Hai'a field and administrative operations are subject to a thorough assessment to overcome any shortcomings in staff performance. Recently over 100 members of the Shoura Council voted in favor of a bill making it imperative for the Hai'a to develop procedural guidelines defining the rights and obligations of its employees. Shoura member Dr. Salem Al-Qahtani raised the issue in the Council when members discussed the annual report of the Hai'a on its activities and performance. The Council passed the proposal by an absolute majority. Al-Qahtani argued that citizens and expatriates need to be informed of the job responsibility of the Hai'a in the form of written guidelines defining all the tasks of Hai'a staff members.
