Prostitution (131A/22)
Request
Please note, there are five parts to this request.
Q1. For each calendar year from 2016 up to and including 2021, how many people have been arrested for Loitering or Soliciting for Prostitution? Please provide a breakdown of gender and race.
Q2. For each calendar year from 2016 up to and including 2021, how many people have been arrested for keeping a brothel? Please provide a breakdown of gender and race.
Q3. For each calendar year from 2016 up to and including 2021, how many people have been arrested for paying for the sexual services? Please provide a breakdown of gender and race.
Q4. For each calendar year from 2016 up to and including 2021, how many people have been arrested “Kerb Crawling”? Please provide a breakdown of gender and race.
Q5. For each calendar year from 2016 up to and including 2021, how many people have been arrested for having sex with a trafficked person, according to Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009, which created a summary-only offence of paying for the sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force
Response
Please find attached our response.
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 a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.