Hotel's Boss Charged For Facilitating Vice
Wednesday, 21st April 2010
Under regulation 24 of the Hotels Licensing Regulations, no licensee of a hotel should allow any person whom he knows or has reason to believe is a prostitute to occupy a room in the hotel or to frequent the premises. With that note, the police have brought charges against the hotel licensee, Siah Chen Long, of Shing Hotel with is located along Kitchener Road. This is sending a strong signal to errant hotel operators to clean up their act
In a Singapore Magistrate Court, it was told that a police officer was keeping an eye for vice activities nearby when he saw a few women loitering outside Shing Hotel and approaching unknown male passers-by. He and his colleagues moved in after the women had checked into the hotel with men. Upon checking three rooms, they arrested three women. Further investigation had shown that two of the women earned about S$50 by providing sexual services to men at the premises.