Independent South Yorkshire Escorts

In a sweeping series of operations targeting car washes, nail bars, and pop-up brothels, South Yorkshire Police apprehended 48 individuals suspected of engaging in organized immigration crime and illicit labor practices. The crackdown resulted in the confiscation of £1,400 worth of counterfeit vapes, the discovery of over 100 cannabis plants, the seizure of £3,000 in cash, and the impoundment of four vehicles, all purportedly linked to instances of modern slavery and exploitation.

A total of four car washes across Barnsley, Rotherham, and Sheffield were shut down, with one employer facing a potential £60,000 penalty. The comprehensive sweep involved searches at more than 40 car washes, nail bars, pop-up brothels, and over 60 residential and vehicular locations, including trucks, under the umbrella of Operation Bubbles. Collaborating with agencies such as the Immigration Service, Department for Work and Pensions, Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Organised Crime Unit, and the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, officers led the extensive investigations.

Detective Chief Inspector Anna Sedgwick underscored the link between unregulated hand car washes and broader organized crime, encompassing drug production, human trafficking, money laundering, and various forms of exploitation. Sedgwick emphasized the diverse nature of modern slavery victims, spanning men, women, and children from various countries and backgrounds, often affecting the most vulnerable or marginalized communities. This concerted effort aimed to combat exploitation in its multifaceted manifestations within society.

Date of Event: Thursday, May 4th 2023

Time of Event: 9:30 AM — 1:15 PM

Place of Event: Webinar

There were believed to be 105,000 individuals in the UK who are involved in prostitution, up from 72,000 in 2016. The vast majority of these are women. The cost-of-living crisis is pushing yet more women into sex work and forcing them to take work from violent and exploitative clients. A 2015 National Ugly Mugs Our survey with Leeds University found 49% of sex workers were “worried” or “very worried” about their safety and 47% have been targeted by offenders. Meanwhile, 49% were either “unconfident” or “very unconfident” that police would take their reports seriously. It is estimated that 152 sex workers were murdered in the UK between 1990 and 2015. The charity Beyond the Streets highlights that 76% of those involved in prostitution experience some form of post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of this work.

Currently, sex work is legal in England, Wales and Scotland, but many of the surrounding aspects remain illegal, such as solicitation or running a brothel. The UK government have stated though that whilst they do not intend to change the law around sex work, they are committed to tackling the harm and exploitation associated with sex work. The Scottish government has also been criticised for focussing their support in this area towards charities that are not backed by sex workers, and that are focussed on getting people out of the industry rather than supporting those in it.

The Home Affairs Committee’s 2016 report, Prostitution, recommended a shift to complete decriminalisation. Dan Vajzovic, the National Police Chief Council’s lead for prostitution, who is working alongside government officials to reassess brothel keeping legislation, has called on the government to review prostitution laws to ensure sex workers can work together on the same premises to remain safe. This would “better enable the police to focus our resources on protecting sex workers and tackling those who are controlling or exploiting,” Vajzovic argues. According to National Ugly Mugs, sex workers are ten times safer working indoors than on the streets.

Christine Jardine MP, Liberal Democrat spokesperson for women and equalities, who supports the decriminalisation of brothel keeping, has called for a proper government strategy to accompany it. Also supporting decriminalisation of brothels, Labour MP, Nadia Whittome, has highlighted that “Other laws aimed at sex work – such as soliciting – should also be repealed, to improve sex workers’ rights, safety and ability to leave the sex industry if they choose. Alongside decriminalisation, the government must urgently tackle the growing levels of poverty that are pushing more women into sex work to make ends meet.”

This timely symposium will provide sex workers, safeguarding boards, police forces, local authorities, and social care providers with an opportunity to identify and debate priorities for reform and develop strategies for protecting and expanding the rights of sex workers.

A guide has been published with information on the law relating to sex workers, and where to get help. The guide has information on working safley.

A very powerful piece by a stripper who worked in a Sheffield strip club where 'Feminists' filmed them a work.  The article shows how these so called 'Feminists' are supportiveof strippers and other sexworkers, unless they are the 'correct type of sexworkers'

I spoke about my experiences at a conference held at the university at the end of summer, where, again, a group of fully grown women affiliated with these ‘feminist’ groups, snuck in using fake details and heckled and interrupted my speech. I tried to talk to them afterwards, I tried to get them to see me, to really acknowledge me as a human worthy of respect, but they treated me so dismissively and cruelly that I cried in front of everyone while they left smugly. It was humiliating. I felt totally degraded.

 

Despite claims on Not Buying It’s website at the time to ‘support women exiting the industry’, they refused to engage with dancers at all. Our attempts to unionise for better working conditions with the grassroots union United Voices of the World was met with cynicism and horrendously objectifying language against sex workers.

A Yorkshire man accused of murdering a Rotherham mum-of-four is said to have a "deep-seated" dislike for sex workers.

Gary Allen, 46, from Hull in East Yorkshire, is standing trial after being charged with the murder of Alena Grlakova, 38, who was found on land just off the Parkgate area of Rotherham on April 8, 2019, after going missing for several months.

It is alleged that Mr Allen murdered Mrs Grlakova on Boxing Day, 2018, with the defendant also facing accusations that he murdered Samantha Class, 29, from Hull in 1997.