Prostitution related arrests in 2008

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 Hertfordshire constabulary 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.

I look forward to receiving your reply within the 20 day statutory
time limit.

Yours faithfully

Ricki Dewsbury

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to remind you that you have broken the law by not
responding to my freedom of information request within the 20 day
statutory time limit.

Please supply the information that I have requested promptly before
a formal complaint is made to the information commissioner.

I have included a link to the Sexual Offences Act 1985 - which
details the kerb crawling offence - should you need any further
guidance when compiling the data I have requested.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/A...

Yours sincerely,

R Dewsbury

Dear Alice Duarte,

Thank you for the reply to my FOI request. Please could you confirm
that no arrests have been made for the 'soliciting or importuning
by a man' given that no records are held by Hertforshire
Constabulary.

Yours sincerely,

R Dewsbury

Dear Alice Duarte

For your future guidance I have included below sections 1 and 2 of
the Sexual Offences Act 1985 that deals with people arrested for
what is referred to in common parlance as kerb crawling.

Records of such offences are kept. Please could you supply the
information requested in relation to this.

Sexual Offences Act 1985

Soliciting of women by men 1 Kerb-crawling

(1)A man commits an offence if he solicits a woman (or different
women) for the purpose of prostitution—

(a)from a motor vehicle while it is in a street or public place; or

(b)in a street or public place while in the immediate vicinity of a
motor vehicle that he has just got out of or off,

persistently or, F1. . . in such manner or in such circumstances as
to be likely to cause annoyance to the woman (or any of the women)
solicited, or nuisance to other persons in the neighbourhood.

(2)A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the
standard scale F2. . ..

(3)In this section “motor vehicle” has the same meaning as in
[F3the Road Traffic Act 1988]. Annotations: Amendments (Textual)

F1Words in s. 1(1) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993, c. 50, s. 1(1);
Sch. 1, Pt. I Gp. 1

F2Words in s. 1(2) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993, c. 50, s. 1(1);
Sch. 1, Pt. XIV

F3Words substituted by Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act
1988 (c. 54, SIF 107:1), s. 4, Sch. 4 para. 29 2 Persistent
soliciting of women for the purpose of prostitution

(1)A man commits an offence if in a street or public place he
persistently solicits a woman (or different women) for the purpose
of prostitution.

(2)A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the
standard scale F1. . .. Annotations: Amendments (Textual)

F1Words in s. 2(2) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993, c. 50, s. 1(1);
Sch. 1, Pt. XIV

Yours faithfully,

R Dewsbury