TIANJIN: An official probe has been launched after a disgraced former police chief helped enroll his daughter in college under a stolen identity.

Authorities in the city of Shaoyang, Hunan province, have sent teams to Shaodong county to investigate Wang Zhengrong and have vowed to make their findings public as soon as possible.

Wang headed a township government in the county in 2002 before becoming commissar of the public security bureau of the neighboring Longhui county in 2004.