EXAMPLE ONE Sounds reasonable to me. If they were trafficked -- in the sense of brought to the uk under false pretences and then brutalised raped and forced to work as prostitutes for the financial benefit of the pimp -- then they are by definition here against their will.
EXAMPLE TWO If on the other hand the woman by dint of living in a shitty Romanian sewer feels forced to write her prossie friend and says will you ask your employer to sort things out for me when I get to the UK and for the usual fee that you pay, and he arranges her transport when she gets here (even if it is only across London to a flat he rents out that, due largely to police harassment is more expensive than a normal flat), then she is 'trafficked'. She's only been picked on cos she's selling sex rather than any other trade where an employer exploits low-wage earners who can't get any other job. Only she happens to be better paid than ChangChingChong sewing shirts and washing dishes down in Chinatown.
External Link/Members OnlyFairness. I'm all for people getting a fair wage for a fair job, but Romanian prostitutes aren't generally underpaid, even after deductions to their pimp. And if that's the case, the police have just wasted my fucking tax money, again, to make themselves look good.
Simpler with old laws. In terms of fiscal efficiency, even the system of Glasgow in the old days was better: the woman would be arrested by police on or near Glasgow Green (why her? For not paying a bribe? Being drunk and disorderly as well?). Anyway, she'd then have to report to the court on a charge of prostitution. The court involved was a short walk so no great inconvenience. She would be duly fined and then have to go to work a bit earlier for a couple of days to pay off the fine.
Prossie 'tax'. It worked quite well. It even meant she in a way paid a sort of 'tax'. And rarely would any of the money find its way into police funds under s 'proceeds of crime' rule.
Real crime, not anti-prostitution excuses for an unjust law. If police can prove real abuse, e.g. Beatings, rape, threats of physical violence, robbing them of all their income, holding them prisoner, damn right prosecute the bastards for everything they're worth. Give the victim her money back that she's earns, her phone, medical treatment if she needs it and s session with a shrink if she's freaked out, and then within a few days escort her to the channel tunnel to see that she is returned to the country from which she was forcibly removed and detained.
An approach for punters. Most experienced punters avoid Romanians for the most part if they can -- not because of the risk that they might be trafficked but because they usually give shit service. If you do want to fuck EE women then just be on the lookout for any signs of abuse and call Crimestoppers if you feel reasonably sure (bear in mind if you get it wrong, you may have just unfairly put Roma girl out of a job, even if she was rubbish).
How the police could better serve the public in such cases. It's surely not that hard. For the police, any
thinking taxpayer might want to see evidence of real abuse. Such things might include photographs of bruises, evidence of threats such as in recordings of texts, evidence that the woman's movements had been unreasonably curtailed (e.g. tied up, not allowed to leave the flat) -- but applying the same rules as one would to any company that placed restrictions on employees and that were either agreed to in advance of forced on the person illegally.
Abuses of the systemAll we generally get is some sexed-up sob story that could have been heavily coached, police finding 'evidence' in the form condoms and money, and a newspaper report about the horrors of slavery and some statistics unconnected and undefined.
In most cases after a victim has been 'rescued', given a house and social security, she will get a different pimp to write her a new AW profile and then carry on as before. With help from the taxpayer for all her new 'benefits'.