Keeping a Brothel 2018 – 2013
Date of request: 12 June 2023
Reference: 764/23
Request
1) The number of brothels known to your police force within the area that it operates. (‘brothels’ includes massage parlours and any other premises where it is known to police that sex work is undertaken)
2) the number of reports received by your police force that relate to brothels for each individual year between 2018 and 2023 (inclusive).
3) the number of arrests made in relation to brothels, sex work, and profiting from sex work for each individual year between 2018 and 2023 (inclusive).
Response
Question 1
We have currently identified 178 addresses in Avon and Somerset Constabulary on our brothel list. This is a list of commercial, residential, and short-term let addresses which are suspected to be brothels or addresses where single sex workers are suspected to be exploited. Not all have been confirmed to be operating. The list has been collated over approximately five years (2018 to present), with brothels confirmed to not be operating or to have been closed down being removed from the list.
Question 2
Please find below data for the offence of keeping a brothel for the years 2018 to 2023
| Year | Keeping a Brothel |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 2 |
Question 3
Please find below arrests and Voluntary attendees for years 2018 to 2023 and offences committed
| Arrest & VA | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Cause / incite prostitution for gain – SOA 2003 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Conspiracy to cause / incite prostitution for gain | 1 | |||||
| Conspire to manage / assist in management of a brothel | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Conspire to manage / assist in management of a brothel,Conspire to manage / assist in management of a brothel,Conspire to manage / assist in management of a brothel | 1 | |||||
| Control prostitution for gain – SOA 2003 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
| Control prostitution for gain – SOA 2003,Keep / manage a brothel used for prostitution | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Keep a brothel | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Keep / manage a brothel used for prostitution | 2 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 | |
| Manage / assist in management of a heterosexual brothel | 1 | |||||
| Pay / promise to pay for sexual services for self / another of a prostitute subjected to exploitative conduct | 1 | |||||
| Permit premises to be used for prostitution | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Permit use of premises as a brothel | 1 | |||||
| Person persistently solicit for the purposes of prostitution | 1 | |||||
| Solicit another for the purpose of obtaining their sexual services as a prostitute in a street / public place | 20 | 26 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 7 |
| Solicit another for the purpose of obtaining their sexual services as a prostitute in a street / public place,Solicit another for the purpose of obtaining their sexual services as a prostitute in a street / public place | 2 | 4 | 3 | |||
| Sum: | 36 | 47 | 26 | 13 | 27 | 15 |