A 36-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man will be charged in court on 18 December 2023 for their suspected involvement in living on prostitution earnings of other persons and employing a servant who permitted prostitutes to occupy rooms in a hotel.
On 25 and 26 April 2023, officers from the Central Police Division conducted an enforcement operation at a hotel in the vicinity of Beach Road and arrested eight vice workers for allegedly using remote communication service to offer sexual services. Investigations by the Criminal Investigation Department revealed that the 36-year-old woman, who was a staff at the hotel, had allegedly facilitated the provision of sexual services by the vice workers at the hotel, and earned commission that was deducted from the vice workers’ prostitution earnings. The 51-year-old man, who is the hotel-keeper of the hotel, is liable for an offence for employing the woman who permitted prostitutes to occupy rooms in the hotel.
Under the Women’s Charter 1961, any person who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of the prostitution of a woman or girl shall be guilty of an offence and shall be punished on conviction with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years and shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding $100,000. Where the person is a repeat offender, he shall be liable on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years and shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding $150,000.
Under the Hotels Licensing Regulations, any licensee who permits any person whom he knows or has reason to believe is a prostitute, catamite or bad character to occupy a room in the hotel or to frequent the premises, shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000, and for a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000. Whenever any person licensed under the Hotels Act 1954 would be liable under the provisions of that Act or of any regulations made thereunder to any pecuniary penalty or forfeiture for any act, omission, neglect or default, he shall be liable to the same pecuniary penalty or forfeiture for every similar act, omission, neglect or default of any agent or servant employed by him in the course of his business as such licensed person.
The Police will continue to take tough enforcement actions against those involved in criminal activities that threaten public safety, peace and good order of the community.
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
15 December 2023 @ 5:45 PM