Police crackdown on illegal prostitution across Brisbane's southside Police are concerned at the number of Asian woman on Brisbane's southside turning to prostitution. YOUNG Asian women living on Brisbane's southside are turning to illegal prostitution to make "easy money," police say. Detective Senior Sergeant Peter Jory, who heads up Queensland's Prostitution Taskforce, said the women - many on student visas - were going into business with people in their own community, working in "massage" parlours, unlicensed brothels or from homes. "I think it's easy money and the rate of pay is much better than what they're likely earning in their own country," Sen-Sgt Jory said. Sen-Sgt Jory said the most common prostitution charge was "knowingly participate in prostitution" and many of the offences occurred in suburbs with high numbers of South-East Asian immigrants including Sunnybank, Coopers Plains and Robertson. "We are seeing a lot of offences coming from those areas and we are finding most of the offences are being committed by the Asian community," he said. I can only speculate on that. I think if you go to another country and you don't speak the language or know the lay of the land ... you team up with people of your own kind and you work together. Sen-Sgt Jory said prostitution only became illegal when two or more people engaged in the business of providing prostitution at unlicensed premises. "If you work by yourself it's not even a police matter," he said. By working with others you attract attention to yourself because what you're doing is illegal. The Queensland Prostitution Enforcement Task Force arrested 96 people for a total of 170 charges in the 2012/13 financial year. In two months, from July to August this year, 16 people were charged with 27 offences, 12 relating to prostitution, two for drugs and three for other charges. An operation earlier in the year into an illegal prostitution business led to the arrest of four people - two women and two men - who were charged with a total of seven offences. Police alleged the group provided out call services to clients in Sunnybank, Salisbury, Acacia Ridge and Mount Gravatt.