GEORGE TOWN: Police are setting “rat traps” at the Majestic Heights flats in Paya Terubong to nab foreign women providing vice services.
Acting OCPD Supt Gan Kong Meng said police personnel will pose as clients seeking sexual favours in order to catch the women.
“Such a method is definitely more effective than conducting raids at the flat as these women do not conduct their activities in their units,” he told reporters after a joint raid codenamed Ops Rantau with the Immigration Department and Rela members at the flats on Monday night.
Supt Gan said an Indonesian woman, in her 30s, was arrested for not having travel documents or a work permit, adding that over 300 foreigners were screened in the two- hour raid that started at 9pm.
The raid by 70 personnel took place following reports by The Star that the flats have become a favourite haunt of locals looking to pick cheap and easy foreign women up, he said.
Some of the vacant units in the 23-storey blocks, he said, have been broken into and turned into prostitution dens.
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