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Strippers were left “terrified” when police and immigration officials swooped on a lap dancing club, it was claimed yesterday.

Dancers slammed the operation by Police Scotland, along with union and charity officials who say workers were not informed of their rights and lost out on wages during Thursday night’s raid.

Police said no arrests were made, describing the swoop as a “licenced premises and welfare visit” carried out with the help of the Home Office.

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Gia, one of the dancers quizzed at the club in Glasgow’s Charing Cross, said: “It was chaos. The girls were terrified.

“As soon as police entered the floor was cleared, dancers were kicked off of stage and out of dance booths, treated like naughty children rather than workers in their own workplace.

"We were not allowed to work while the police were there, which spanned the majority of the night but were still required to pay house fees. These fear tactics are unacceptable.”

Trade union United Voices of the World said a dancer contacted them during the “invasive and ultimately useless raid” to seek advice.

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Nadine Stott, chair of sex workers’ charity SCOTPEP, added: “We have previously had assurances from police that they were not conducting these types of raids on sex industry businesses as they could not guarantee it would not become an immigration raid.

“These raids inspire fear and mean that if dancers ever needed to report abuse, they would hesitate to go to the police.”

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “All was in order at the premises, with no offences detected.”

Seventh Heaven did not comment.