Passport patrols acting on a tip that some Asian men were engaging the services of runaway maids to carry out a series of illicit and immoral acts launched a campaign and raided several flats in Al-Azizia District. These raids resulted in the arrest of several people from different nationalities including Arabs who were found involved in immoral activity. The patrols also succeeded in arresting several workers violating the residency (Iqama) and labor regulations including street vendors and fruit and vegetable wholesale merchants of Arab nationality. The patrols kept the area under tight surveillance and at the zero hour they raided the houses where they arrested several Indonesian workers who provided shelter to the runaway Indonesian housemaids. The police also arrested men in illicit seclusion with unrelated Indonesian women. Within the campaign the police uncovered secret factories for readymade clothes run by Indians as well a number of unlicensed fruit and vegetable street vendors who were storing their goods in unhygienic conditions. The campaign which was supervised by Brig. Salim Al-Zahrani, Acting Director of Makkah Region Passports Department, was led by Capt. Yasser Al-Sha'er, Commander of the Search and Investigation Unit.
