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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
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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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