KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 11, 2010): In a bid to curb vice activities which are on the rise in the country, Bukit Aman police will go all out after the pimps and perpetrators of such activities.
Bukit Aman Criminal Investigations Department assistant director Assistant Commissioner Kamarulzaman Mamat told theSun the priority now is to weed out pimps and those running illegal massage parlors, brothels and seedy joints, especially after last year's crime statistics recorded a 25% increase in vice activities.
"We will take drastic action this year against pimps," said Kamarulzaman, who heads the Bukit Aman anti-vice, gaming and secret society division (D7).
"We carry out raids from time to time, but the women keep coming back. So we have decided to focus our efforts to nab the pimps and those who promote vice activities.
"These people are the root cause of the problem and we need to get rid of them first in our fight against vice activities," he said.
Kamarulzaman said the number of foreign women who enter the country's sex trade is also quite alarming.
He cited as example the red light area in Brickfields, particularly Jalan Thambipillai, which was raided more than a dozen times last year but prostitutes kept coming back.
"We have this problem because of the existence of pimps and their runners who constantly look at ways to promote the sex trade.
"So if we remove them from the picture, then we can clean up our streets to a great extent.
"We will not only go after the pimps, but also take stern action to deter new 'players' from entering the scene.
Kamarulzaman said police will invoke the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) to freeze the accounts and assets of pimps.
"Not only will we take action under AMLA, but we will also use the Anti-Human Trafficking Act on pimps who were found to have brought in foreign women to exploit them for sexual services.
Kamarulzaman urged the public to co-operate with the police and provide information on brothels or massage parlours in their area.
The D7 divisions nationwide nabbed a total of 11,200 foreign women engaged in vice-activities in 2009.
This marks an increase of 25% compared to 8,949 foreign women in 2008.
The number of Malaysian women detained for vice activities also increased by 4.2% last year.
In 2008, a total of 1,353 Malaysian women were detained for vice activities and in 2009, the number of arrested was 1,410.
All D7 divisions nationwide carried out a total of 12,836 anti-vice raids in 2008, while in 2009, there was a 2% increase to 13,087.
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