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Prostitution

Fiona Mactaggart: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many arrests there were by
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each police force of men who were attempting to buy sexual services on the street in the last period for which figures are available. [110442]

Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not available centrally. Information on arrests is based on persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) by main offence group (i.e. sexual offences, theft and handling stolen goods, violence against the person, burglary etc.) and police force area within England and Wales. Information is therefore not available to the detail required.

However, the following tables show the number of offenders cautioned and defendants found guilty at all courts for kerb crawling and soliciting offences, by gender and police force area in England and Wales in 2005.

Number of offenders cautioned and persons found guilty at all courts for kerb crawling and soliciting offences, by sex and police force area, England and Wales 2005( 1, 2)
Cautions
Kerb crawling Persistent soliciting of women for the purposes of prostitution Soliciting by a man
Police force area Male Female Male Female Male Female

Avon and Somerset

43

—

5

—

—

—

Bedfordshire

9

—

10

—

—

—

Cleveland

2

—

—

—

—

—

Derbyshire

2

—

—

—

—

—

Dorset

—

—

—

—

10

—

Essex

—

—

1

—

—

—

Greater Manchester

2

—

—

—

—

—

Humberside

11

—

—

—

—

—

Kent

4

—

—

—

—

—

Lancashire

6

—

2

—

—

—

Merseyside

1

—

—

—

—

—

Metropolitan Police

8

—

2

—

—

—

Norfolk

—

—

—

—

1

—

Nottinghamshire

80

1

14

—

12

—

South Yorkshire

31

—

2

—

—

—

Suffolk

19

—

—

—

—

—

Thames Valley

—

—

4

—

—

—

West Midlands

39

—

2

—

—

—

West Yorkshire

8

—

—

—

—

—

South Wales

4

—

—

—

—

—

England and Wales

269

1

42

—

23

—



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Convictions
Kerb crawling Persistent soliciting of women for the purposes of prostitution Soliciting by a man
Police force area Male Female Male Female Male Female

Avon and Somerset

1

—

—

—

—

—

Bedfordshire

1

—

—

—

—

—

Cleveland

106

3

—

—

—

—

Derbyshire

16

—

—

—

—

—

Essex

1

—

—

—

—

—

Greater Manchester

7

1

9

—

—

—

Hampshire

7

—

—

—

—

—

Lancashire

2

—

—

—

1

—

Merseyside

5

—

2

—

—

—

Metropolitan Police

286

2

2

—

1

—

Northamptonshire

42

—

1

—

—

—

Nottinghamshire

16

—

—

—

—

—

South Yorkshire

8

—

1

—

—

—

Staffordshire

14

—

4

—

—

—

Suffolk

5

—

—

—

—

—

West Midlands

66

—

12

—

—

—

West Yorkshire

45

—

3

—

—

—

South Wales

1

—

—

—

—

—

England and Wales

629

6

34

—

2

—

(1) These data are provided on the principal offence basis
(2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces and courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Source:
RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform
Our Ref IOS 106-06
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