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  • 20-04-2008 11:21am
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    bangersandmash
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    Article from here
    BBC News wrote:
    Police raids over online brothels

    Police have made 15 arrests as part of a major operation targeting brothels operating via the internet.

    More than 100 officers investigating a prostitution and people-trafficking network searched 19 premises across central London.

    Police believe criminals have been using an internet escort agency as a front for organised prostitution.

    It is alleged the network operates by trafficking women from abroad and then coercing them to work as prostitutes.

    A total of 110 officers are involved in Operation Gib, which is being led by the Metropolitan Police with support from Surrey Constabulary and the Norfolk Constabulary.

    Police said they hoped to rescue an estimated 60 foreign women who they believe had been forced into prostitution.

    By 0900 BST on Sunday, 30 women had been taken to a specialist centre staffed with interpreters, health workers and officers trained in sexual offences interview techniques.

    Plainclothed officers carried out searches in the Paddington area of London and at another address in Surrey.

    Ch Supt Ian Dyson from the Metropolitan Police said internet prostitution was a growing problem.

    'Biggest of its type'

    Police have been monitoring the network for around four months.

    Speaking before the operation, which was launched in the early hours of Sunday, Mr Dyson said: "Tonight is the culmination of a three to four-month investigation into a network of criminals who have controlled prostitutes through an escort agency website were upwards of 60 women have been involved in prostitution with a degree of coercion involved.

    "Our intention is to arrest the subjects of the operation for trafficking, controlling prostitution and money laundering and to identify and rescue victims of trafficking."

    He said the operation was the "biggest of its type" against brothels operating via a website.

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