What is "vice squad"

n. A police section specialized in vice crimes.

n. a police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitution

Vice Squad are an English punk band formed in 1978 in Bristol. The band was formed from two other local punk bands, The Contingent and TV Brakes. The songwriter and vocalist Beki Bondage (born Rebecca Louise Bond) was a founding member of the band. Although there was a period of time when the band had a different vocalist she reformed the band in 1997. She is often cited as being the first punk pin-up featured on the front cover of a number of influential music tabloids such as Melody Maker, NME and Smash Hits.

Vice Squad is a 1982 action/ crime drama film, starring Wings Hauser, Season Hubley, and Gary Swanson, directed by Gary Sherman. The original music score was composed by Joe Renzetti and Keith Rubenstein. Wings Hauser sang the vocal track on the film's opening and closing theme song "Neon Slime".

Vice Squad is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Arnold Laven and starring Edward G. Robinson as a police captain with the Los Angeles Police Department and Paulette Goddard as one of his informants.

A vice squad is a police division whose focus is stopping crimes like gambling, narcotics, prostitution and illegal sales of alcohol.

Vice squad may also refer to:

• Vice Squad, an English punk band
• The Vice Squad, a 1931 Paramount film starring Paul Lukas
• Vice Squad (1953 film), a 1953 police procedural film
• Vice Squad (1978 film), a 1978 crime film
• Vice Squad (1982 film), a 1982 action film

Vice Squad (French: Brigade des moeurs) is a 1959 French crime film directed by Maurice Boutel and starring Eddie Barclay, Colette Ripert and Michel Beaufort.