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02-10-2017, 07:21 AM
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MPs in Pioneer and West Coast call for more enforcement action after residents voice concerns
Tan Tam Mei
Ng Jun Sen
From the outside, the four-room Housing Board flat in Jurong West Street 61 looked innocuous enough, except for the constant stream of men who flock there.
Residents said that for the last one year, the rented unit has housed a number of foreign women, and some were shocked to learn that it operates as a brothel.
Despite a number of raids in the area, such brothels keep returning, attracted by low rents and the belief that they are less likely to be detected there.
MPs in Pioneer and West Coast are calling for more enforcement action after receiving feedback from residents, who complained that brothels have emerged in HDB flats in the area.
Pioneer MP Cedric Foo said he has received such feedback about suspected vice activity in his ward.
"Such undesirable activities should not be tolerated and I hope the police and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority can do more to stop them," he added.
The unit in Jurong West Street 61 falls under his ward.
Delivery driver Jasman Samad, 48, who lives below the unit, said: "With all these strangers about, I'm very concerned about the safety of my family. The authorities should do something."
The Straits Times visited the unit recently after first becoming aware of it from an online listing. The unit is in a block about five minutes from Pioneer MRT station. Arrangements to visit had to be made through mobile text messages.
continue reading here : http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/heartland-brothels-make-residents-see-red
MPs in Pioneer and West Coast call for more enforcement action after residents voice concerns
Tan Tam Mei
Ng Jun Sen
From the outside, the four-room Housing Board flat in Jurong West Street 61 looked innocuous enough, except for the constant stream of men who flock there.
Residents said that for the last one year, the rented unit has housed a number of foreign women, and some were shocked to learn that it operates as a brothel.
Despite a number of raids in the area, such brothels keep returning, attracted by low rents and the belief that they are less likely to be detected there.
MPs in Pioneer and West Coast are calling for more enforcement action after receiving feedback from residents, who complained that brothels have emerged in HDB flats in the area.
Pioneer MP Cedric Foo said he has received such feedback about suspected vice activity in his ward.
"Such undesirable activities should not be tolerated and I hope the police and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority can do more to stop them," he added.
The unit in Jurong West Street 61 falls under his ward.
Delivery driver Jasman Samad, 48, who lives below the unit, said: "With all these strangers about, I'm very concerned about the safety of my family. The authorities should do something."
The Straits Times visited the unit recently after first becoming aware of it from an online listing. The unit is in a block about five minutes from Pioneer MRT station. Arrangements to visit had to be made through mobile text messages.
continue reading here : http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/heartland-brothels-make-residents-see-red