Local law enforcers feeling the heat; days numbered for teahouse scammers

Police in downtown Shanghai were handed a new set of directives last month to make the city more Expo-friendly and compound the problems they have encountered re-enforcing the "Seven No's" since the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

"Our work has become more complicated because of the Expo," said Captain Liu Jun of the Nanjing East Road Patrol Team. Like the majority of Chinese policeman he carries a truncheon, smoke bombs, transistor radio and flashlight but no firearm.

In addition to re-enforcing a 15-year-old ban on spitting, littering, vandalism, jaywalking, smoking and swearing in public, and trampling on green areas - dubbed the "Seven No's - Liu and his crew now have a new set of commandments.