Is it permissible for the members of the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice to look at obscene films that they have seized in order to verify them?

The questioner : Regarding the members of the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, O Shaykh, if for example they seize some obscene films, or if a report about these films reaches them, or for example some pictures, are they permitted to look at these films to verify them, or is a person only responsible for himself?

The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong with the members of the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice looking at these films to see what wickedness is in them, but one who does not feel safe regarding himself should not look. Yes, that is correct, the session has ended.