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  • Hate crimes against sex workers

    • Reference: 2013/4701
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 18 December 2013
    I have heard reports that police are dismissing sex workers after they experience attacks and try to report the offence. Will you take a stand and also recommend to the Commissioner that crimes against sex workers are treated as hate crimes, or an equivalent escalated crime type, to ensure no officers treat sex workers in this way, putting them at heightened risk?

  • Three women in South London (1)

    • Reference: 2013/4702
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 18 December 2013
    The recent 'slave house' case in South London revealed how trafficking can be unorganised. Will you be encouraging the MPS Trafficking Unit to recognise the need to proactively seek trafficking that isn't taking place within international criminal networks?

  • Three women in South London (2)

    • Reference: 2013/4703
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 18 December 2013
    The Police warned Lambeth council about their concerns regarding the 'slave house' 15 years ago. Will you be calling on local authorities to be taking more steps to recognise and act on concerns regarding exploitation?

  • Soho brothel raids

    • Reference: 2013/4704
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 18 December 2013
    After the Newham raids in 2011 there was no effective support in place or any follow-up work and women ended up working on the streets in Ilford. Similar large-scale raids took place in Soho on the 4 December 2013. Do you know what processes to support the women, found on brothel raids, are now in place so that these women have not ended up being even more vulnerable?

  • Soho raids and victim focus

    • Reference: 2013/4705
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 18 December 2013
    On 4 December 2013 brothel raids took place which aimed to find vulnerable, at-risk trafficking victims; however the police brought the Evening Standard to the raid and allowed them to publish photos of the women (who tried to hide their faces but could possibly be recognised by their hair and clothes etc). If police are looking for vulnerable trafficking victims, do you think they should avoid creating further stigmatization and risk, and not allow the media to take pictures of them?

  • Police enforcement against sex workers

    • Reference: 2013/4700
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 18 December 2013
    Please can you formally ask the Commissioner to ensure that police do not use enforcement-only methods against sex workers? Is it pointless for the police to fine a street sex worker for soliciting on the street, since she is often in such a vulnerable state that she can only pay back a police fine by selling sex on the streets?

  • Prosecuting Children for Cannabis Cultivation

    • Reference: 2013/3954
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    How many children were charged for cannabis cultivation in each month of 2012/13?

  • Resources Spent on Exit Programmes (1)

    • Reference: 2013/3955
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    How much of the £30,000 given to Redbridge Street Pastors to help sex workers exit prostitution came from the MPS/MOPAC?

  • Resources Spent on Exit Programmes (2)

    • Reference: 2013/3956
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    What information has the Redbridge Street Pastors shared with the Metropolitan police on the success of the program? Is there any evidence of the program helping sex workers in 'exiting' since the funding was provided?

  • Resources Spent on Exit Programmes (3)

    • Reference: 2013/3957
    • Question by: Andrew Boff
    • Meeting date: 20 November 2013
    What evidence base was used to ensure this project with Redbridge Street Pastors would lead to clear results?