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| NEWS ARCHIVES | | | | 158 nabbed in crime raid | | 7 Feb 2010 | | | |
For the second time in two weeks, the Criminal Investigation Department or CID and other enforcement officers swept though the streets of Geylang and Orchard Road early on Sunday morning.
158 persons were arrested for a range of offences, some of them gang and vice related.
Last week, officers from the CID and Tanglin Police Division arrested 27 persons for various criminal offences at entertainment outlets along Orchard Road.
While the latest reports are unavailable, about 5,050 foreign women were picked up for vice offences in 2008, compared to the 5,400 arrested in 2007.
It is understood that much of the operation along the Orchard Road entertainment area was targeted at Orchard Towers .
The women - who are here on social visit passes - commonly come from the Philippines, China, Thailand and Vietnam .
Some have also been known to prowl the surrounding areas, openly soliciting customers in the early hours of the morning, to as far as Pacific Plaza along Scotts Road.
When MediaCorp visited the area on Sunday morning at around 2am, the women who are usually seen waiting outside the complex are almost gone, perhaps frightened off by the police presence. |
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