vice squad

English

Noun

vice squad (plural vice squads)

1. (law enforcement, criminology) A police section specialized in vice crimes.
   • 1974 February 2, “Notices”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 6:

     The film is about a big city police vice squad, and the action opens with Gould and Blake posing as "fairies" in order to raid and 'bustup' a gay bar.

Translations

police section specialized in vice crimes

• Dutch: zedenbrigade
• Finnish: huoltopoliisi
• French: police des mœurs (fr), brigade de répression du proxénétisme, brigade mondaine, police des braguettes, brigade des mœurs (fr)
• German: Sittenpolizei (de) f
• Hungarian: erkölcsrendészet (hu)
• Polish: policja obyczajowa f, obyczajówka (pl) f
• Swedish: sedlighetsrotel c
• Yiddish: מאָראַל־פּאָליציי f (moral-politsey)