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Memorandum submitted by Claire Redford and others (PC 22)
Memoranda in identical or similar terms have been submitted by the following people:
Lisa Alsford Erika Anderson Darren Baines Jackie Barnes Anjali Be Glynn Bradley Sofie Buckland Karen Butler Michael Curry Mia Devenish Nikita Devine Elizabeth Dowd Simon Fox Nick Giles Carrie Hamilton Kate Hardy Rick Harley David John Hartley Robert Haynes Rebecca Hutchins Ian Ireland Carolyn Jones Paul Jordan Hilary Jane Kear Ross Lawson Alec Leaver David Lord Emma Mann Michael Matthews Angela Nangle Alan Norgate Crystal O'Mahoney Philip Pentecost Helen Prestige Andrew P. Rigby David and Wendy Rumsey Thierry Schaffauser Jean Shaw Ronald Shiner Paul Southgate and Partners Ishmael Skyes Neil Smith Jim Smethurst Annabel Spicer Vicki Stansfield Greig Stewart Paul Tallentire Steve Taylor Sally Thompson Michael Wilson Katie Wright
Dear Sirs,
I am emailing in response to the Policing and Crime Bill regarding the Committee discussions on Thursday
I work in the sex industry and care about the safety and the human rights of people who share my choice of career.
I ask you to drop section 20, which gives the police wide ranging powers to seal premises on suspicion (i.e. with no proof) that a wide of activities related to prostitution have happened or will happen. This will remove the protection of the law from many people in the indoor industry as people will not call the police if they know doing so risks closing the premises so we will suffer increased violence, robbery and rape.
I would also ask you to note that section 13 - criminalisation of clients - will do nothing to stop violence or trafficking, but will play into the hands of traffickers by decreasing reporting by clients of anxieties about trafficking.
Please do not let this misguided piece of legislation pass unamended.
Do you want to be looked back on as the MPs who passed the most misguided piece of legislation of the 21st century, which could have the same effects as the similar legislation passed in the 1880's had on homosexuals?
February 2009 |