POLICE are sending out unmarked police cars around Blackburn amid concerns punters are still visiting street sex workers, despite the coronavirus lockdown restriction.
Officers have also been speaking to working girls to encourage them not to go out and work, fearing they could either catch Covid-19 from their ‘customers’ or transmit it to them.
Police will also be patrolling areas where prostitutes are known to operate and will either arrest, issue words of advice or a fixed penalty notices to anybody thought to be a punter or out of their home without a reasonable excuse.