SINGAPORE - A drunk teenage girl, four alleged gang members and a suspected drug offender caught vaping were among the people arrested by the police in the early hours of Sept 12.

In an operation targeting gang activity at public entertainment outlets, the police checked close to 100 people and 18 outlets in Rochor Canal Road and Little India.

Seven people, aged 16 to 44, were arrested, and five vapes were seized.

The media observed the police conducting checks on several public entertainment outlets in a mall in the Rochor area on Sept 12.

Such outlets typically have a stage area, and patrons pay to hang flower garlands and sashes on female performers.

Outside one outlet in the mall, the police arrested two men aged 44 and 24 for being suspected members of unlawful societies.

There, they also caught a 40-year-old man who was vaping and arrested him for suspected drug offences.

The Central Narcotics Bureau is investigating.

As the raiding teams made their way to Little India nearby, they spotted a 38-year-old vaping at an eatery at Dunlop Street.