A department or division of a police force that enforces laws against prostitution, drug abuse, illegal gambling, etc.
（取缔卖淫、吸毒、非法赌博等的）警察缉捕队
Example sentencesExamples
In her third case, Tennison joined the vice squad to fight child exploitation, gay prostitution, and police corruption.
When the vice squad raided his home they found 735 seedy films.
He turned in a stream of hot stories about the city police department which was embroiled in a corruption scandal inside the vice squad.
‘The Minister for Health should set up a vice squad to cater specifically for children sucked into prostitution and other sex crimes,’ he said.
Inside were three cops assigned to the Rampart vice squad.
Police from Hampshire's vice squad were unavailable for comment as the Daily Echo went to press.
He was promoted to sergeant in 1980, and posted to nearby Tower Hamlets where he worked as a plain clothes officer in the vice squad and the crime squad.
I visited the chief of police in charge of the Amsterdam vice squad, as we would call it.
To facilitate the fieldwork, I spent a year attached to the police vice squad responsible for policing street prostitution offences.
They had issued a flyer protesting the vice squad's raid of the service provider's office.
Definition of vice squad in US English:
vice squad
nounˈvīs ˌskwädˈvaɪs ˌskwɑd
A department or division of a police force that enforces laws against prostitution, drug abuse, illegal gambling, etc.
（取缔卖淫、吸毒、非法赌博等的）警察缉捕队
Example sentencesExamples
‘The Minister for Health should set up a vice squad to cater specifically for children sucked into prostitution and other sex crimes,’ he said.
He was promoted to sergeant in 1980, and posted to nearby Tower Hamlets where he worked as a plain clothes officer in the vice squad and the crime squad.
In her third case, Tennison joined the vice squad to fight child exploitation, gay prostitution, and police corruption.
Inside were three cops assigned to the Rampart vice squad.
Police from Hampshire's vice squad were unavailable for comment as the Daily Echo went to press.
He turned in a stream of hot stories about the city police department which was embroiled in a corruption scandal inside the vice squad.
They had issued a flyer protesting the vice squad's raid of the service provider's office.
I visited the chief of police in charge of the Amsterdam vice squad, as we would call it.
To facilitate the fieldwork, I spent a year attached to the police vice squad responsible for policing street prostitution offences.
When the vice squad raided his home they found 735 seedy films.