Vow to keep kids out of sex hotels

THE NYPD will begin vetting hotels used to house homeless families, after the Department of Investigation found kids were being kept in hot-sheet hotels.

“Moving forward, we’re going to vet every hotel that the Department of Homeless Services goes into,” Deputy Chief Edward Thompson (photo), who oversees DHS security, said at a 1 Police Plaza press conference Friday. The NYPD made prostitution arrests at 21 of the 57 hotels where the city sent homeless families with children last year, investigators reported. At one hotel, a homeless woman told officials she’d even been approached by a man asking if she’d like to work as a prostitute.

“We’ll vet them the same way our vice unit does,” Thompson said. “We’ll look at complaints, we’ll look at previous arrests, we’ll look at existing cases. We will ensure that they have all the information to provide the safest environment for any family that’s placed in that hotel.”