VIGILANT residents have been praised for helping to close a brothel.

Eight police officers and a benefit fraud official swooped on a house in Knox Road, Clacton.

A 43-year-old woman from China was arrested and taken to Clacton police station.

She was given a formal caution for managing the brothel and was released without charge.

It is understood suspects who were in charge of the operation have since left the area.

Police said the raid was thanks to information supplied to the neighbourhood policing team by residents.

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