November 30, 2022 | Sexual Offences
Reference: F-2022-02555
Request
Request 1
The number of times your force has executed a search warrant in each calendar year since 2017 on known or suspected brothels.
Request 2
The number of prostitute’s cautions your force has issued in each calendar year since 2017.
Request 3
The number of cautions (as a judicial disposal, by which I just mean excluding prostitute's cautions) your force has issued in each calendar year since 2017 to anyone suspected of the following offences:
- Causing or inciting prostitution for gain (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 52)
- Controlling prostitution for gain (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 53)
- Keeping a brothel used for prostitution (Sexual Offences Act 1956 Sec 33A as added by Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 55)
- Persistently loitering or soliting in a street or public place for the purposes of offering services as a prostitute (Street Offences Act 1959 Sec 1(1) as amended by Policing and Crime Act 2009 sec 16)
- Soliciting another for the purpose of obtaining their sexual services as a prostitute in a street or public place (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec51A added by policing and Crime Act 2009 Sec 19)
- Paying or promising to pay a person to pay a person to provide sexual services, where that person is subject to exploitative conduct to induce or encourage them to provide those services (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 53A. Added by Policing and Crime Act 2009 Sec 14)
Please break this down by offence.
Request 4
The number of people your force has arrested in each calendar year since 2017 for the following suspected offences:
- Causing or inciting prostitution for gain (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 52)
- Controlling prostitution for gain (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 53)
- Keeping a brothel used for prostitution (Sexual Offences Act 1956 Sec 33A as added by Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 55)
- Persistently loitering or soliting in a street or public place for the purposes of offering services as a prostitute (Street Offences Act 1959 Sec 1(1) as amended by Policing and Crime Act 2009 sec 16)
- Soliciting another for the purpose of obtaining their sexual services as a prostitute in a street or public place (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec51A added by policing and Crime Act 2009 Sec 19)
- Paying or promising to pay a person to pay a person to provide sexual services, where that person is subject to exploitative conduct to induce or encourage them to provide those services (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 53A. Added by Policing and Crime Act 2009 Sec 14)
Please break this down by offence.
Request 5
The number of charges authorised in your force area in each calendar year since 2017 to anyone suspected of the following offences:
- Causing or inciting prostitution for gain (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 52)
- Controlling prostitution for gain (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 53)
- Keeping a brothel used for prostitution (Sexual Offences Act 1956 Sec 33A as added by Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 55)
- Persistently loitering or soliting in a street or public place for the purposes of offering services as a prostitute (Street Offences Act 1959 Sec 1(1) as amended by Policing and Crime Act 2009 sec 16)
- Soliciting another for the purpose of obtaining their sexual services as a prostitute in a street or public place (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec51A added by policing and Crime Act 2009 Sec 19)
- Paying or promising to pay a person to pay a person to provide sexual services, where that person is subject to exploitative conduct to induce or encourage them to provide those services (Sexual Offences Act 2003 Sec 53A. Added by Policing and Crime Act 2009 Sec 14)
Please break this down by offence.