In 2016, bin Salman took steps to drastically curtail the powers of the "Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice" (CPVPV), or Islamic religious police.[180][181] The "feared" CPVPV, which had thousands of officers on the streets and powers to arrest, detain, and interrogate those suspected of violating of sharia, and it was banned "from pursuing, questioning, asking for identification, arresting and detaining anyone suspected of a crime".[182]