China’s war on all things vice has shifted into a higher gear following a new campaign aimed at stamping out gambling and prostitution.

Late last month, China’s Ministry of Public Security announced it was stepping up its monitoring of land-based entertainment venues – clubs, bath houses, massage parlors and internet cafés – for signs that their list of entertainment options included gambling and/or sex for sale.

The Ministry said its action was aimed at anyone “organizing, forcing, alluring, harboring and introducing women for prostitution as well as groups operating and providing an ‘umbrella’ for gambling activities.” The Ministry declined to specify when this new campaign had started or how long it would last.

The Ministry also warned police officers who were in cahoots with vice merchants not to tip off their colleagues regarding the timing and location of raids, saying anyone who was found to be associating with criminals and/or partaking of their illicit products would be dismissed on the spot and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.