Call to criminalise kerb crawlers

Published: Monday, September 26, 2011

The criminalisation of men who buy sex must be central to any strategy to combat prostitution, police experts from Sweden and Norway said in Dublin today.

They are here at the invitation of the Immigrant Council of Ireland and Ruhama, which works with women in prostitution, to advise the Garda and the HSE.

Det Supt Jonas Trolle, operational head of crime and narcotics surveillance with Stockholm Police Department, and Patric Cederlof, the national co-ordinator against prostitution and human trafficking, were joined by Det Chief Inspector Thor Martin Elton and Det Inspector Stian Jacobsen both of the Oslo police in Norway.

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