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Freedom of Information Act Request No: 2021-094

Version Date: 17/02/2022

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information:

For this request, we have searched Niche Custody recording system for all the offences requested, for the 2016 to 2021. If details of a particular arrest is not show, this means it was a nil return. Please also be advised that “Kerb Crawling” is not an arrest reason, but we have included all offences in relation to Soliciting.

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

2016

Reason for Arrest	Female	Male			Total
Reason for Arrest	Any other white background	White British	Any other white background	Not Stated	Total
Arrange / facilitate the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17 years		3		1	4
Cause / incite the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17		2			2
Control prostitution for gain		2			2
Keep / manage a brothel used for prostitution	1	2	1		4
Paying for the sexual services of a girl aged 16 / 17		7	1		8

2017

Reason for Arrest	Female			Male			Total
Reason for Arrest	Chinese	White British	Any other white background	Chinese	White British	Any other white background	Total
Arrange / facilitate the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17 years		1					1
Cause / incite prostitution for gain					2	3	5
Cause / incite the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17					5		5
Control a child aged 13 - 17 subject to sexual exploitation					1		1
Control prostitution for gain			1			1	2
Keep / manage a brothel used for prostitution	1			1			2
Paying for the sexual services of a boy aged 16 / 17					3		3

2018

Reason for Arrest	Male		Total
Reason for Arrest	Any other ethnic group	White British	Total
Arrange / facilitate the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17 years		1	1
Cause / incite the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17		1	1
Control prostitution for gain	1		1

2019

Reason for Arrest	Female	Male	Total
Reason for Arrest	Chinese	White British	Total
Cause / incite the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17		1	1
Keep a brothel	1		1

2020

Reason for Arrest	Female			Male			Total
Reason for Arrest	Any other Asian background	White British	Any other white background	Any other mixed background	White British	Any other white background	Total
Cause / incite prostitution for gain		1					1
Cause / incite the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17					2		2
Control prostitution for gain			1	1			2
Keep a brothel	1						1
Paying for the sexual services of a girl aged 16 / 17						1	1

2021

Reason for Arrest	Male		Total
Reason for Arrest	Any other ethnic group	White British	Total
Arrange / facilitate the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17 years		1	1
Cause / incite the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13 - 17		1	1
Keep / manage a brothel used for prostitution		1	1
Keep a brothel	1		1

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