Inter-agency efforts to interdict and deter vice activities operating under guise of TCM outlets in HDB-sold shops

Question:

Mr Xie Yao Quan: To ask the Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs (a) how has SPF been working with HDB and the Ministry of Health to interdict and deter vice activities operating under the guise of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) outl ets in HDB-sold shops in the heartlands; and (b) how many of such cases has SPF found and acted against in the last three years.

Answer:

Mr K Shanmugam, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs:

1. The Police and the Housing and Development Board (HDB) conduct regular compliance and enforcement checks against massage establishments located within HDB estates, including unlicensed establishments which purport to be Traditional Chinese Medicine clinics. Between 2023 and 2025, the Police investigated close to 350 vice-related breaches involving unlicensed massage establishments.

2. The Police also work with HDB to evict massage establishments which have committed offences.