- Hong Kong police plan to step up operations against vice operations
- The move follows a crackdown on prostitution across border in Dongguan
- Senior police fear vice may shift to Hong Kong in the wake of police raids
- The Chinese government has indicated that a vice crackdown has gone nationwide
(CNN) — Hong Kong police plan to step up efforts against vice operations in the city following a massive crackdown on prostitution last week across the Chinese border, where police in Dongguan raided 2000 establishments and detained more than 900 people.
Senior Hong Kong police expressed fears that the Special Administrative Zone could fill the vice vacuum left after the raids by more than 6000 police on the Chinese industrial city just 60 miles (100km) to the north.
Commissioner of Police Andy Tsang Wai-hung told local media that police would be stepping up operations against the sex trade, adding that proliferation of vice in the territory was a concern following the crackdown.
“There is definitely potential for the sex trade to suddenly grow quickly here but it won’t just be confined to a rise in prostitution,” a senior Hong Kong police office told the South China Morning Post. “It will bring with it all the usual vice that goes with it: narcotics, money laundering, triad protection.”
The Hong Kong poice senior officer
According to media reports cited by the English-language
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