01-16-2006, 19:29 PM
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Pimps' initiative aims for safe streets
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Christchurch pimps have begun a new initiative to protect sex workers on the street by compiling a database on clientele.
According to the Sunday Star Times, pimps are using cell phones to collect information such as car registrations and descriptions of vehicles belonging to men picking up prostitutes.
The initiative, which was sparked by the death of two sex Christchurch sex workers last year, is aimed at making the streets safer for prostitutes and is currently in practice on one of the city's well-known pick-up strips, Manchester Street.
All information is provided by spotters who text or send images via mobile phones back to a base. The base holds data which can then identify new or suspicious clients.
The Times says that while police are supportive of measures to prevent attacks, they will not tolerate from any potential profiteering from the service, such as charging prostitutes "rent".
Police are also wary about the organised crime of so-called minders running Christchurch street workers, and are keeping tabs and those who are supposedly keeping tabs.
The regional co-ordinator for the Prostitutes Collective, Anna Reed, is also supportive of tighter security although she says it is up to the individual sex worker whether they choose to use the security being offered by pimps or not.
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