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Original Post Date: 2009-03-04 Time: 21:00:01 Posted By: Jan
Cape Town – Cape Town police sometimes ask prostitutes for “sexual favours” in exchange for not arresting them, according to an affidavit filed in the Cape High Court.
The document forms the basis of an application by sex workers’ advocacy group SWEAT for an interdict against the police, due to be argued on Thursday.
The Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce is asking the court to order the SA Police Services and the municipal police to stop what it says are ongoing arbitrary arrests and harassment.
In the founding affidavit, former SWEAT director Jayne Arnott said that in supplementary affidavits, three prostitutes describe law enforcement officers “requesting sexual favours from them free of charge” in exchange for not arresting them or for releasing them early from detention.
This was consistent with research into sex workers’ experiences conducted by SWEAT, she said.
She said police were trying to harass and punish prostitutes without going to the bother of having them appear in court.
One described being arrested in the middle of the day while returning home with shopping bags, another while on her way to her own birthday party.
“In one of the supporting affidavits, a sex worker describes how members of the Cape Town City Police wait for her and other sex workers with whom she lives to leave their home,” Arnott said.
“As soon as they do so, the… police order them to return home without attempting to establish where they are going. If they refuse to do so, they are threatened with arrest.”
Arrest and detention, said Arnott, were often accompanied by verbal abuse and deliberate humiliation.
“It is not unusual for sex workers to be made to clean the offices, the kitchen, the mess halls or the toilets at the court cells where they have been held before being released,” said Arnott.
She said the police were aware that prostitutes were “virtually as a matter of course” not prosecuted.
On one occasion, she said, an arresting officer told a prostitute he had locked up in the Woodstock police cells for the night that “the magistrates have better things to do than to deal with prostitutes”. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20090304172921304C499400