Any comment on this report ? will it effect the property price in Kovan Area ?
We have 2 properties on that area
Quiet residential estate Kovan is *** hot spot Pimps say Kovan has "right ingredients" to be *** hot spot
Click on thumbnail to view For more photos, click here.THE women in ***y dresses look out of place eating roti prata and fried rice. Sitting in teams of two or three, they linger for hours at a coffee shop in the Kovan residential area.
When the phone rings, they rush to get ready.
After a quick check on her pocket mirror, one of them heads for one of the two budget hotels nearby.
At the hotel entrance, she meets a man and gives a brief introduction before checking into the hotel room with him.
This scene has been played out many times over the past one year, said a worker at an Indian-Muslim coffee shop on Upper Serangoon Road.
That came to an abrupt end after a police raid on April 1.
The police arrested 12 female Chinese nationals for vice-related offences in the rooms of Hotel 81 (Kovan) and Fragrance Hotel (Kovan).
According to the police, their investigations showed some of the suspects had made use of the Internet to advertise their ***ual services.
This joint operation by the Criminal Investigation Department and Ang Mo Kio Police Division happened in the wake of residents in Kovan complaining to their Member of Parliament, Madam Cynthia Phua, about scantily clad women loitering near their homes.
But of all places, why do *** workers choose to ply their trade there?
After all, Kovan is a quiet enclave of mostly private homes, with some HDB blocks nearby.
Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre, which is next to the two hotels, has had massage parlours and a KTV lounge for more than 10 years.
One pimp we met at the coffee shop revealed Kovan has all the "right ingredients" to be a hot spot.
Said the pimp, who gave his name only as Ah Hock: "There are budget hotels, coffee shops, convenience stores and KTVs. And it's in a quiet neighbourhood. Perfect."
The 30-year-old pimp said places like Kovan appeared on the *** workers' radar because of frequent raids in Geylang since last year.
He said: "Geylang is no longer a safe haven for freelance *** workers. Customers are also afraid to be there, especially when there is a clean-up going on now.
"Previously you could see the women walking along the streets in Geylang. Now, all you see are uniformed policemen doing their rounds."
His view was shared by a social activist from the Student Christian Movement.
The 41-year-old activist, who gave her name as MsYock Leng, reaches out to *** workers, offering counselling and condoms.
"I don't really know where (these streetwalkers) have disappeared to. But I saw some of them in Lavender and Balestier by chance," she said.
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