Prostitution related arrests in 2008

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Dear Ms Dewsbury,
With regards to your recent FOI request, as per below, please could you clarify your request,
as the offence of soliciting prositutes / kerb crawling can apply to both the prostitute and client -
do you require both, or just the client?

In addition, when asking for the number who were fined, are you asking
to know how many have been fined at court?

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Please supply the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.

1) How many people were arrested for soliciting prostitutes
or kerb crawling by West Yorkshire police in each month of 2008.

3) Of those arrested in each month the number who were

a) released without charge

b) cautioned

c) charged

d) fined

e) If none of the above can be applied to each arrest
I would like to know how the crime was dealt with

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FOI Team
West Yorkshire Police

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Ms Dewsbury,

Unfortunately, I have been unable to finalise your Freedom of Information request within the
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Dear Ms Dewsbury,

Following from my e-mail of 19th May, unfortunately I have been unable to finalise your request
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Kind regards,

Claire Vickers-Pearson.
Freedom of Information.
West Yorkshire Police.

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