Dongguan police chief gets the sack
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The Dongguan police chief has been sacked following the media exposure and crackdown of rampant prostitution in the southern Chinese city.
Yan Xiaokang has been removed from his posts for dereliction of duty, the Party’s Guangdong provincial committee said yesterday.
A statement from the committee said that Yan’s failures led to the persistent illegal sex trade in Dongguan, which reflected very badly on the city, both domestically and internationally.
One of Yan’s deputies, two township police chiefs, three police station directors and a township Party chief were also dismissed, according to the statement.
Prior to yesterday’s round of sanctions, two police station directors had been sacked for not responding adequately to journalists’ calls.
More than 6,000 police officers swept through hundreds of hotels, saunas and karaoke parlors in the city, arresting 67 people and shutting down 12 venues.
The raids came hours after national broadcaster CCTV aired a half-hour report on Sunday chronicling what appeared to be extensive and open prostitution in five towns across Dongguan.
Secretly shot footage showed scantily clad women parading on a stage and managers of venues speaking openly about prostitution services.
Guangdong’s Party chief Hu Chunhua stressed the need “to conduct an extensive trawling-style crackdown on the entire city.”
The Dongguan region has long been known as a center for the sex industry. While periodic sweeps against vice have been carried out, including during sensitive periods such as the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, the industry has thrived. Law enforcement often appears to be lax.
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