- Reference: 2014/3619
- Question by: Andrew Boff
- Meeting date: 22 October 2014
After a year of enforcement in Ilford Road to tackle prostitution - which, as a result, meant sex workers were pushed into working in less safe areas or were criminalised and so forced to remain in prostitution - prostitution is again on the rise in this area, and one sex worker has tragically died. Is it time to admit that this police policy has failed and that a long term holistic response, which assists sex workers to make choices that will allow them to eventually move away from prostitution, is preferable?