vice squad

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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.

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