More suspected prostitutes picked-up by Police on Pattaya Beach
The Pattaya Police Social Order Crackdown continues with a further beach clean-up in the early hours of Tuesday on Pattaya Beach which resulted in the arrest of 70 people – 30 women and 40 transsexuals.
Once again they were profiled and fined 100 Baht before being allowed to leave.
Although the small fine is unlikely to result in eradication of the beach prostitutes, it is clearly having an effect as later on in the morning the beach was deserted.
At around the same time as the arrests took place an Iranian tourist aged 45 came to Pattaya Police Station to make a complaint regarding the alleged theft of 800 US Dollars from his trouser pocket by a transsexual in front of the Golden Beach Hotel on Pattaya Second Road, however after an inspection of the 70 arrestees, the suspected thief could not be found.