Despite much of last year being spent under lockdown with strict guidelines in place to limit the spread of Covid-19, Cambridgeshire Police still recorded 12 offences related to prostitution - one more than in 2019.
That includes three offences of soliciting for the purposes of prostitution, and nine of exploitation of prostitution.
The soliciting offences could be sex workers loitering on street corners, or people trying to pick up a prostitute, for example by “kerb crawling”.
Exploitation could include using force, threats, deception or other forms of coercion to force someone into having sex.