Police raided a building in Romford’s high street after being tipped off that an apartment was being used as an alleged brothel.
Officers descended on a flat at Equitable House, located at 88 –100 South Street, last month.
PC Chris Stockman, from the Met Police’s east area borough command unit, confirmed that police were dispatched to an apartment in Equitable House on October 7.
He said police were investigating “public concern around the use of an address” and that “enquiries are ongoing”.
He continued: “Romford Town Safer Neighbourhoods Team are working with the local authority and other agencies to carry out work on these types of premises, safeguard those involved and prosecute the people that run them where possible.
The police show no concern for the women who are working there to earn a living and feed their family. Instead, they persecute sex workers and generally prosecute them.