Det Insp Skipworth said: “We have uncovered organised crime and we have seized assets and in one job we have frozen about £1 million on assets.”
Police investigating the burgeoning sex trade in the city have now visited more than 100 prostitutes including one who did not even know she was in Cambridge.
Detective Inspector Nick Skipworth has revealed how travelling sex workers rent apartments in the city for up to £1,500 a week and how the force is investigating mobile “brothels” advertised online.
The officer has also lifted the lid how police target “nasty” organised gangs who traffic women – turning them into modern day slaves.
He told how a handful of 100 sex workers visited by police knew 999 was the way to contact officer and one girl did not know which city she was in.
Officers also helped a 16-year-old girl being used by human traffickers as a sex slave.
He told the News: “I set up an operation which explores the online area of people selling sex and we have a protocol which has been running in Cambridge where we visit sex workers and police anything we need to police, but primarily to safeguard individual sex workers.
“We do that through the internet and we do that by physically visiting them. As a result of that about 100 females were visited. Only a handful knew 999 was the number to get through to police which just demonstrates their vulnerability.
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