The Police have busted three social escort agencies for their suspected involvement in vice-related activities. These agencies were also believed to have operated closely with one another.
In a seven-hour operation mounted on 13 October 2015, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) conducted various raids at Geylang East Ave, Kallang Place, Flora Road and Henderson Road. Eight suspects, three men and five women aged between 23 and 52, were arrested. An array of computers, mobile phones, documents, cameras and clothing apparel were also seized as case exhibits.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the three social escort agencies were believed to have been operated by the three men, who would take a cut from the earnings of the social escorts involved in vice-related activities.
The three men will be charged in Court on 15 October 2015 under the Women’s Charter. Investigations against the remaining suspects are on-going.
Under Section 146 of the Woman’s Charter, any person who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of the prostitution of another person shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding S$10,000.
Head of CID’s Specialised Crime Branch, Superintendent of Police Lawrence Eng said, “Vice operators who assume that they can hide behind the ‘smokescreen’ of a social escort agency to commit criminal offences should think twice. We will find them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.”
Case Exhibits
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
14 October 2015 @ 8:25 PM