article_snippet: Police swooped on 17 nail bars and residential addresses across the UK on Tuesday including one salon in Reading (above).
article_snippet: Thames Valley Police Officers raided three nail bars in Reading (above), two in Wokingham and one in York in addition to a number of residential addresses.
article_snippet: Among the nail bars that were raided as part of today’s operation was this one in the centre of Reading (above)
article_snippet: It comes after a Sunday Times report estimated around 15,000 nail bars in Britain were controlled by criminals involved in human trafficking.
article_snippet: Sometimes nail bars serve as a cover for other types of crime and some times they are just the tip of the iceberg when the iceberg comes to illegality. '
highlights_snippet: There are an estimated 15,000 nail bars operated by criminals in Britain, according to a press report .