Outreach workers Matt Sherley-Price and Zaneta Stawlarska
SWINDON police are keen to prevent sex crimes and support people trapped in a cycle of criminal behaviour as well as enforcing the law.
Officers stage regular operations cracking down on street prostitution in the Manchester Road and County Road areas.
But instead of just arresting the girls selling their bodies, then sending them straight back onto the streets, police are looking at ways of helping them straighten their lives out.
Operation Dougal sees officers target women who are soliciting on the street. Beat officers can arrest women suspected of touting for business, but once taken to the police stations, extra help is on hand.
Insp Carly Nesbitt said that prostitution is one of the biggest problems facing residents in Swindon's central sector area.
As a long-term solution drug treatment, housing advice and support for underage girls are all available when they are booked in to Gablecross police station, in a bid to tackle the deep rooted causes of prostitution.
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"We do carry out enforcement where appropriate, however we recognise that enforcement can only have limited results and doesn't remove the underlying problems," Insp Nesbitt said.
We do arrest girls, but we want to help them and that will reduce crime in the long run
Insp Carly Nesbitt
"We work with other agencies to try to prevent and remove the reasons why people feel they need to sell themselves.
"We do arrest girls, but we also want to help them, and that will reduce crime in the long run."
Insp Nesbitt said that more than half of the town's prostitutes were hooked on drugs like crack and heroin.
Forced to feed their addictions, many of Swindon's prostitutes feel it is the only way they can make ends meet. During the operations in Broadgreen, officers found girls as young as 16 selling their bodies.
The teenagers can be brought under immediate police protection to shield them from further harm, find them accommodation, homes and the care they need.
The police are also working with the community safety partnership, social services, drug and alcohol services, youth offending workers and children's services to encourage them away from the sex industry.
Sexual health agencies are also on hand to offer working girls medical check-ups they may otherwise never get.
This story has just been cobbled together from old reports, can't the Adver be bothered to do fresh interviews???
Still I suppose it fills an up and coming new reporters potfolio............
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This story has just been cobbled together from old reports, can't the Adver be bothered to do fresh interviews???
Still I suppose it fills an up and coming new reporters potfolio............
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B.O.R.I.N.G.
Please, can we stop this endless avalanche of prostitution stories?
It's NOT one of Swindon's main problems at all. The police themselves say there are only 20 or so regular prostitutes and I'm sure only a tiny percentage of the town's population ever uses them.
Drug addicts cause the vast majority of crime in this, and every other, town. Why don't the police crack down on them and clear them off the streets and into prison/rehab?
If they did, crime would fall overnight.
B.O.R.I.N.G.
Please, can we stop this endless avalanche of prostitution stories?
It's NOT one of Swindon's main problems at all. The police themselves say there are only 20 or so regular prostitutes and I'm sure only a tiny percentage of the town's population ever uses them.
Drug addicts cause the vast majority of crime in this, and every other, town. Why don't the police crack down on them and clear them off the streets and into prison/rehab?
Posted by: angry monkey, Swindon on 11:46am Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]Frontier(s)[/bold] wrote:
B.O.R.I.N.G. Please, can we stop this endless avalanche of prostitution stories? It's NOT one of Swindon's main problems at all. The police themselves say there are only 20 or so regular prostitutes and I'm sure only a tiny percentage of the town's population ever uses them. Drug addicts cause the vast majority of crime in this, and every other, town. Why don't the police crack down on them and clear them off the streets and into prison/rehab? If they did, crime would fall overnight.[/quote] Excellent point.
And why are you not big mac any more?
Frontier(s) wrote:
B.O.R.I.N.G. Please, can we stop this endless avalanche of prostitution stories? It's NOT one of Swindon's main problems at all. The police themselves say there are only 20 or so regular prostitutes and I'm sure only a tiny percentage of the town's population ever uses them. Drug addicts cause the vast majority of crime in this, and every other, town. Why don't the police crack down on them and clear them off the streets and into prison/rehab? If they did, crime would fall overnight.
Posted by: emmylou83, Stratton on 12:25pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]Frontier(s)[/bold] wrote:
Lost my password and then the site messed up sending out a new one.[/quote] Doesn't the adver site leave you logged in? Only ask coz it does with me
Frontier(s) wrote:
Lost my password and then the site messed up sending out a new one.
Doesn't the adver site leave you logged in? Only ask coz it does with me
Posted by: steve-o, Swindon on 2:22pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]emmylou83[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]Frontier(s)[/bold] wrote: Lost my password and then the site messed up sending out a new one.[/quote] Doesn't the adver site leave you logged in? Only ask coz it does with me [/quote] Your the lucky one then Emma always have to log in even on my own or mates
emmylou83 wrote:
Frontier(s) wrote: Lost my password and then the site messed up sending out a new one.
Doesn't the adver site leave you logged in? Only ask coz it does with me
Your the lucky one then Emma always have to log in even on my own or mates
[quote][bold]emmylou83[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]Frontier(s)[/bold] wrote: Lost my password and then the site messed up sending out a new one.[/quote] Doesn't the adver site leave you logged in? Only ask coz it does with me [/quote] No, I have to log in before each session.
On an old, Win95, PC it keeps me logged in until I log out. That PC's been retired now though.
emmylou83 wrote:
Frontier(s) wrote: Lost my password and then the site messed up sending out a new one.
Doesn't the adver site leave you logged in? Only ask coz it does with me
No, I have to log in before each session.
On an old, Win95, PC it keeps me logged in until I log out. That PC's been retired now though.
Posted by: emmylou83, Stratton on 4:09pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]john c[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]emmylou83[/bold] wrote: I'm obviously special then :) [/quote] You obviously don't clear your cookies on a regular basis, naughty girl! [/quote] Tis a work computer I don't care LOL
john c wrote:
emmylou83 wrote: I'm obviously special then :)
You obviously don't clear your cookies on a regular basis, naughty girl!
Posted by: nufinkbetterado, swindon on 9:57pm Thu 8 May 08
[quote][bold]davidmac123[/bold] wrote:
Swindon advert harping on again about prostitution but still having 10+ adverts in the back pages for escorts?? where is the logic in that??[/quote] Finally a comment that deserves a comment, good point, wonder what the editor has to say about that eh?...income for the paper and all that. Anyway if you other guys think it is sooo boring, why don't you keep your chit chat re logging in and work pc's to yourselves and keep to the main purpose because that is even more BORING, hey just swap e-mail addresses.
davidmac123 wrote:
Swindon advert harping on again about prostitution but still having 10+ adverts in the back pages for escorts?? where is the logic in that??
Finally a comment that deserves a comment, good point, wonder what the editor has to say about that eh?...income for the paper and all that. Anyway if you other guys think it is sooo boring, why don't you keep your chit chat re logging in and work pc's to yourselves and keep to the main purpose because that is even more BORING, hey just swap e-mail addresses.
Perhaps the media that take these ads
could be aiding and abetting. also taking
ad money from immoral
earnings.Money is louder than words."
Interesting that 6 MONTHS after the Government and the Newspaper Society launched a campaign to reduce sex trafficking
that the Adver continues to run these ads - presumably Mr Gannett carries more clout at Adver towers than d-d-d-d-dithering Gordon!
Any views from the " Minister for Britishness" or B'Anne'd Wagon Snelgrove?
See:
holdthefrontpage.co.
uk/news/080201sextra
de.shtml
newspapersoc.org.uk/
Default.aspx?page=29
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Perhaps the media that take these ads
could be aiding and abetting. also taking
ad money from immoral
earnings.Money is louder than words."
Interesting that 6 MONTHS after the Government and the Newspaper Society launched a campaign to reduce sex trafficking
that the Adver continues to run these ads - presumably Mr Gannett carries more clout at Adver towers than d-d-d-d-dithering Gordon!
Any views from the " Minister for Britishness" or B'Anne'd Wagon Snelgrove?
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