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===Vice squad=== [[File:Vice squad interrogation in Calumet City 1912 ichicdn n059451.jpg|thumb|A 1912 portrait of Frankie Fore, sitting in a room during a vice raid in [[Calumet City, Illinois|Calumet City]] (formerly known as West Hammond), Illinois.]] [[File:Mukfellas.png|thumb|In Saudi Arabia, the [[Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Saudi Arabia)|Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice]] is the vice squad authority.]] {{redirect|Vice squad}} A vice squad, also called a '''vice unit''' or a '''morality squad''', is generally, though not always, a police division, whose focus is to restrain or suppress moral crimes. Though what is considered or accepted as a moral crime by society often varies considerably according to local laws or customs between nations, countries, or states, it often includes activities such as [[gambling]], [[narcotics]], [[prostitution]] and [[pornography]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/vice+squad|title=Vice squad|publisher=The Free Dictionary By Farlex|access-date=2012-05-31|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050921013607/http://www.thefreedictionary.com/vice%20squad|archive-date=2005-09-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Franklin |first=James |author-link=James Franklin (philosopher) |date=2022 |title=Catholic Action, Sydney Style: Catholic lay organisations from friendly societies to the Vice Squad |url=https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/vicesquadpublished.pdf |journal=Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society |volume=108 |issue=2 |pages=172β201 |doi= |access-date=2 Jan 2023}}</ref>
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