A British national and a Thai woman have been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking in Thai 'Sin City' Pattaya.

Cops raided the 'Flirt' bar on the area's notorious Soi 6 road - packed with dozens of sex bars - next to the beach at around 9pm on April 5.

Footage from the raid shows dozens of attractive young women at work in knickers and boob-tube tops being frogmarched into a police truck and taken to the local station to be questioned.

Englishman William Reece and local woman Jaranya Deeppair, 31, were detained by police chiefs. The Brit was seen being led into the police station in what appeared to be handcuffs.

Officers said that arrest warrants had been issued against the British man on April 4 for allegedly conspiring to commit human trafficking.

The charges relate to young women being ferried around the country to serve tourists in the nightlife industry, where they are paid around 1,500 Baht (35 GBP) for sex.

Police Colonel Thanapong Phothi, superintendent of the Pattaya City Police Station, said: 'We made the arrest to build confidence in Pattaya's image among tourists. We have invited the store's employees to give their statements at the station.'

The accused were remanded in police custody as they await further legal proceedings.

Cops said they raided the shop but did not find any illegal substances. The employees inside were also all above 18-years-old, the legal age for working as prostitutes.

Military top brass from Bangkok have been trying for several years to clean up Pattaya, dubbed the 'sex capital' of the world and a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, as they battle to kick out badly behaving Brits and Aussies, and turn the region into a family-friendly resort to tap into lucrative family markets in China, India and Russia.

However, they face an uphill struggle against its entrenched 24-hour sex industry and endemic corruption that allows it to continue unabated. The bars - many of which are run by British ex-pats and function as shop windows for cheap prostitutes - along with massage parlours and street workers are also a lucrative part of the tourism industry, which before the pandemic accounted for 21 percent of Thailand's annual GDP, generating 1.8 trillion baht (52.3 billion USD) in revenue.