Kerb Crawling Offences - Southend - 2019 to 2022

Keywords

Kerb, Crawling, Offences, Southend, Incidents, Arrests, Cautions, Criminal protection notice, Criminal behaviour order, Enacted, Control, Measure, Crawler, Safeguarding, Patrols, Vehicles.

Publication Number

PUB 1444

FOI Reference Number

16789

Request Title

Kerb Crawling Offences - Southend - 2019 to 2022

Date Range

2019 to 2022

Information Requested

For incidents of kerb crawling in Southend please could you let me know how many of the following occurred or where issued:

1. Arrests

2. Cautions

3. Criminal Protection Notices

4. Criminal Behaviour Orders

Please could you break it down by year: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022?

Please could you also let me know if the police have enacted any other official control measure not listed above during this time period?

Disclosure with Exemptions

Full Disclosure

Information Correct as at

25 February 2022

Date of Disclosure

16 March 2022

Related Documents/Links

N/A

FOI 16789 Response

Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:

Caveats: 

The data is correct as at 25 February 2022.

Date Range:  01 January 2019 to 22 February 2022.

Year	Outcome Type	District	Home Office Classification	Full Offence Title
2019	Type 15 - Named Suspect Identified: Victim Supports Police Action But Evidential Difficulties Prevent Further Action	Southend-on-Sea	167/01	Soliciting another for the purpose of obtaining their sexual services as a prostitute in a street or public place

We have issued a Community Protection Warning to a suspected Kerb Crawler.  We have conducted a large amount of high visibility and plain clothes patrols in the area, stopping over 50 vehicles in the process.  Most of these lead to either no further action, or intelligence reports, as it is very difficult to prove someone is Kerb crawling.

We also attend a bi-weekly meeting with various partners to discuss women who are known to be selling sex in the area.  We discuss risk to them, safeguarding and any potential support that can be offered to divert them away from that lifestyle.

We have also shared our patrols over social media, to try and deter those using the area illegally from doing so.

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