This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'prostitution'.
 
 
 
 
Inspector Dave Lockyear 
Information Access Manager 
Information Management Services 
 
Mr Ricki Dewsbury 
[email address] 
[FOI #8451 email] 
 
Direct line 
Direct fax 
020 7601 2279 
020 7601 2088 
 
Your ref:  
Our ref:  
 
24 March 2009 
 
Dear Mr Dewsbury 
 
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REF:  COL/09/102 
 
I write in connection with your request for information dated 25 February 2009 in which you seek 
access to the following information: 
 
1.  How many people were arrested for soliciting prostitutes or kerb crawling by City of London 
Police in each month of 2008? 
 
2.  Of those arrested in each month the number who were a) released without charge, b) 
cautioned, c) charged, d) fined and e) If none of the above can be applied to each arrest I 
would like to know how the crime was dealt with. 

 
Questions 1 and 2 
 
No persons were arrested for soliciting prostitutes or kerb crawling by this force in 2008. 
 
3.  I would also like to know how much money has been allocated to the force for the specific 
purpose of reducing prostitution. 
 
No money as been allocated to the force for the specific purpose of reducing prostitution. 
 
Please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to your request.  Should you have any further 
questions, please contact me via e-mail, letter or telephone, quoting the reference number above. 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
 
 
Inspector Dave Lockyear 
Information Access Manager 
 
Wood Street Police Station 
PO Box 36427, 37 Wood Street, London EC2M 2NP 
Tel 020 7601 2279          Textphone 020 7601 2906 
www.cityoflondon.police.uk 
 

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