Raids, Rescues, Resolution. Pentameter 2. Attacking Exploitation in the UK. SIREN report. November 2008
- Document number
- 1995
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Raids, Rescues, Resolution. Pentameter 2. Attacking Exploitation in the UK. SIREN report. November 2008
- Author/publisher
- Strategic Information Response Network (SIREN)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Media/News, Guidelines/Recommendations,
- Keywords
- Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Prostitution; Sex work; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism,
- Summary
- Code-named Operation Pentameter 2 (UKP2), the UK law enforcement operation against sex trafficking was initiated in June 2007. UKP2 recovered 167 sex trafficking victims of trafficking from 822 premises across the UK: 157 were massage parlors or saunas, and 582 residential premises. 528 suspects were arrested, 296 more than in Pentameter 1. Within a month of the end of the operational phase, more than 80 individuals had already been charged with a variety of offences. A number of others remained on bail while investigations continue
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