The New Paper reported that the Bangkok Post ran a story last Sunday about Thai women being trafficked to remote locations in Singapore where they are held as 'sex slaves'.
In July this year, police busted a vice den for foreign workers at Loyang Way and arrested five men and a Thai prostitute. The barren field near Pasir Ris had been a haven for gamblers and foreign workers seeking cheap sex.
In March, the police found another forest brothel in Yishun operated by Thai nationals.
Previously, they had also raided wooded areas in Lim Chu Kang Road and Woodlands.
THE police conducted 950 vice-related operations islandwide and arrested 5,400 foreign prostitutes last year.
There were no figures available for the number of raids conducted or people arrested at forest brothels.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Home Affairs said: 'The police do not tolerate vice offences regardless of where they occur and will act on intelligence and complaints of any such illegal activities reported.'
The police are mindful that some of the women may have been forced into prostitution or brought here against their will, and all arrested foreign sex workers are interviewed.
'If this turns out to be the case, the police will investigate to identify and prosecute potential offenders responsible,' the spokesman said.
The police also arrange for these women to be sheltered in government-aided or other homes.
The police do not turn a 'blind eye' to any offences here.
'Human trafficking is not tolerated any more than trafficking of arms or drugs or any other such serious criminal activity,' the spokesman said.
'The police are ready to cooperate with counterparts in the region and beyond in the investigation of any such criminal activity which may be transnational in nature.'
Source: The New Paper
Monday, October 20, 2008
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