Shanghai Police Director Sacked as Chinese Regime Targets Security Apparatus for Purge

A police officer looks at his cell phone at Shanghai Film Center (SFC) in Shanghai on July 25, 2020. Yifan Ding/Getty Images

Gong Dao’an, director of the Shanghai police bureau and the city’s deputy mayor, was sacked on Aug. 18, representing the first Shanghai official, and the third top official from the Chinese regime’s security apparatus, to be punished this year.

Shanghai is known as the stronghold of a political faction loyal to former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin—the chief political rivals of current leader Xi Jinping.