The multi-agency operation included officers from the Singapore Police Force, Central Narcotics Bureau, Immigration & Checkpoints Authority, Singapore Customs and the Health Sciences Authority, and ranged from Geylang to Boat Quay.
Police investigated entertainment venues, lodging houses and various public areas like laneways and caught people involved breaches of licensing and illegal gambling. Customs officials also seized over 290 cartons of duty unpaid cigarettes.
Police said they arrested the suspects for offences like gang-related activities, immigration offences, illegal employment, peddling of contraband cigarettes, vice-related activities, illegal gambling, consumption of controlled drugs, furnishing false particulars and wilful trespass. Investigations are ongoing.
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'There will be no letting up on enforcement operations against all forms of illegal activities,' said Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Ng Boon Gay, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department.
'Our enforcement agencies have demonstrated good rapport and synergy in a joint effort to keep crime off our streets. All persons arrested will be appropriately dealt with by the law.'
