KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 (Bernama) -- The mushrooming of cheap motels which
offer low hourly rates is believed to play a major part in the growth of
prostitution among locals and foreigners alike in the country.
Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri
Zinin said these cheap motels were used as a base by the prostitutes to carry
out their illicit activities.
"We don''t discount the possibility that the existence of these motels,
especially those which offer cheap packages, support such activities and
encourage this vice among the singles.
"Furthermore, there are also restaurants which offer prostitutes as an
''attraction'' in order to reap higher profits," he said to Bernama.
Based on the latest Anti-Vice, Gaming and Secret Societies Division (D7)
statistics, 11,832 foreign women were detained in 2011 compared to 11,919 in
2010. In addition, 1,801 local women were also detained for prostitution last
year.
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Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur Social Development, Crime Prevention and Anti-Drugs
Voluntary Organisation (Pencegah) president Jeevan S. Ramamurthy said it was
possible that motels with cheap rates gained their basic profits from the oldest
form of human trafficking in the world.
"There are motel owners involved in prostitution and most of them focus on
foreign women as they are paid much less and the owners make two to three times
more than if they were to use local women," he said.
He said the difference in currency exchange and socio-economic conditions of
the prostitutes'' countries of origin were also among the reasons why the women
end up in vice here.
Commenting on the involvement of local women, he said there were those who
did not choose to do so but were cheated into it by their partners.
"Then there are those who are forced into it by their husbands and even some
who are trapped by their own lust," he added.
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Jeevan said that the police need to foster ties with the Social Welfare
Department or Women, Family and Community Development Ministry to ensure women
who were forced into prostitution had adequate protection.
"For instance, when police detain them and find elements of force then they
should be referred to another party for assistance," he said.
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