People arrested for Loitering or Soliciting for Prostitution and for keeping a brothel from 2016 to 2021

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.023019

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Please note, there are five parts to this request.

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

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