China has approved a plan by its Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) to set up a “super” anti-graft bureau that will investigate officials suspected of corruption.

SPP General Cao Jianming told China Daily that the new bureau will be staffed by several dozen experienced senior prosecutors, who will be appointed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. The bureau will also be combined with three existing bodies—the Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Bureau, the Prevention of Duty-Related Crimes Department and the Investigation of Dereliction of Duty and Power Abuse Department—and will be established at vice-ministerial level, higher than a regular bureau.

A large database and an improved filing system will be built and are expected to be set in several months.

According to Deputy Head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Zhao Hongzhu, more than half of government offices and public institutions are still to be visited by disciplinary investigators.