UK Police Let Prostitution Slide

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UK Law enforcement admits that it lets many prostitution related offenses slide.  Read the whole story at The Daily Mail

We turn a blind eye to many brothels, admits Yard chief
By Martin Bentham

The Met has admitted turning a ‘blind eye’ to many of London’s brothels and massage parlours because it believes the public would not support a total clampdown on prostitution.

Commander Allan Gibson told MPs the force knew rapidly when sex was being sold and could devote ‘a lot more’ of its resources to tackling the problem, but chose not to do so.

Mr Gibson, the officer in charge of the force’s human trafficking unit, claimed this was because police felt Londoners were willing to tolerate a ‘certain level’ of prostitution and a full-scale crackdown would be a ‘very difficult thing to sell to the public’.

The Met insisted it was determined to stamp out serious criminality connected to brothels, such as people-trafficking.

But the admission that it allows many to operate produced an angry response from women’s campaigners. The Met’s stance was revealed in evidence to the Commons home affairs select committee.

Mr Gibson said the force only raided brothels where it believed serious offences were being committed.

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