A symposium was held on 10 September 2002 to accompany the Channel 4 season on Prostitution. The purpose of the event was to bring together a range of experts to discuss the existing laws governing prostitution and suggest ways of improving the laws. At the end of the discussion the panel drew up guidelines to present to the Government and the Press.
The symposium was chaired by Jon Snow and the following participated.
Supt (Community Safety) John Brennan – Head of Vice Squad, Sheffield Police.
Responsible for deployment of uniform and CID in Sheffield Central district. He is ultimately responsible for vice matters in the district.
Rosemary Campbell
Rosie has carried out applied policy research on sex work since 1995, most of this work has taken place in Merseyside and the Midlands. This research work has involved consultation with all those involved and affected by sex work including; sex workers, men who pay for sex, residents and community groups from red light areas and voluntary and statutory agencies responding to prostitution.
She is now an independent research consultant, having been based in the Applied Research Centre of Liverpool Hope until March 2002. As Vice Chair of the UK Network of Sex Worker Projects and Chair of the networks’ 'Safety, Violence and Policing Group', she works with sex work projects throughout the UK.
Christine Field – magistrate for 25 years at Camberwell Green Magistrates Court.
Liz Kelly – Professor of Sexualised Violence and Director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University.
Her research career includes a range of large and smaller scale projects ranging from pure research into the prevalence of child sexual abuse and children's perspectives on domestic violence, through evaluation and policy relevant studies on trafficking into the UK and responses to reported rape.
Ana Lopez – Founder of International Sex Workers Union (pictured left).
Ana is a PHD student studying organisations within the sex industry. She also works as a phone-sex operator and is a founding member of the IUSW which was set up in March 2000.
Tiggey May – Senior Research Fellow at South Bank University in the Criminal Research Unit.
Worked on a Home Office funded study ‘Vulnerability and Involvement in Drug Use and Prostitution. Currently working on a study with Imperial College looking into the entrances and exits of young people into prostitution.
Nanette Pollock – Former Detective Chief Inspector with Strathclyde Force.
Having recently retired after 30 years service. She has been involved in the investigation of almost all of the seven street working women who were murdered in the Glasgow area, and headed the two most recent murder enquiries involving prostitutes. She was considered by the Force as the expert on these issues and was responsible for taking the Force forward to 'Routes Out Of Prostitution'. Although now retired, she is still very much involved as an adviser at a strategic level and is the spokesperson for Public Awareness of Routes Out.
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