Ante upped for police gamblers

GUANGZHOU - Gambling among police officers in Dongguan, Guangdong province, has diminished after the city's department of public security disseminated a special letter to every officer early this month.

The letter, written by a local officer's wife, was first sent to Ye Wochang, Party chief of the commission for discipline investigation under the city's department of public security. It asked the city's police force to take effective measures to fight gambling by police officers.

The wife, who refused to be named, said her husband was an officer in the city's Changping township. She wrote the letter to save her husband and family after she failed to persuade her husband to quit gambling.