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Support for GPS tracking for prostitutes



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Published Date: 11 August 2008
AN Edinburgh-based prostitute support group has backed plans to monitor vice girls by GPS in a bid to stop them being attacked.
Ruth Morgan Thomas, manager of Scotpep, admitted the scheme could be expensive, but could save the lives of sex workers on the streets.

The plans aim to make prostitutes safer by enabling them to send a message to a central point saying when they will start working and when they are due to finish for the night.

If they don't phone in on time, an automatic alarm is triggered allowing a GPS tracking system to kick in.

Ms Morgan Thomas said: "In principle we absolutely back schemes like these. Some of them are expensive but what price do you put on a life?

"If something like this had been on offer in Ipswich in 2006 would five women there have been killed?"

The scheme is to be trialled at the Glasgow hostel where Emma Caldwell, 27, was last seen alive in 2005. Her body was found a month later in woods near Biggar.





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  • Last Updated: 11 August 2008 10:18 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Edinburgh's sex industry
 
1

Mallory,

Edinburgh 11/08/2008 12:30:33
Even better would be a proper safe licensed working environment. Margo has the right answer.

GPS won't stop an attack just make finding the victim easier
2

WGH Doctor,

edinburgh 11/08/2008 12:41:41
Are General Practitioners not busy enough without following prozzies around Leith?
3

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11/08/2008 12:47:34
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It's heading straight for us!,

Edinburgh 11/08/2008 12:56:36
Sort of makes sense - but will they put up those signs like they have for the busses on princes street?

Senga: does bondage & watersports, Expected 25 mins
Brittney: does groups, Expected 12 mins
5

Teofilio Cubillas,

11/08/2008 13:27:53
Another load of pie-in-the-sky old nonsense about "sex workers". As no 1 says, legalise it (for both prostitute and customer)but in licensed brothels. I like Margo MacDonald but her support of tolerance zones is misguided hogwash. Who is she to inflict prostitutes and their assorted low-life detritus upon the decent residents of a particular area? You can bet your bottom dollar you'll not get tolerance zones anywhere near her, or any other politician's house.
6

Teofilio Cubillas,

11/08/2008 13:41:03
Oh, and no prizes for guessing who'll be paying for these devices....
7

Douglas,

Bathgate 11/08/2008 17:08:18
For super safety the GPS equipment could be used along with the new US invisibility gear. "Clients" wont know if they're coming or going.
8

rs,

11/08/2008 21:00:22
heard all, but this takes the biscuit.

what about Green Kerb Crawling....use a tandem....!!!!!
9

James (1),

11/08/2008 23:39:11
Could junkies be get them as well? We must do all we can for people who choose to break the law. Life has to be easier for them.
Perhaps we could supply the drug dealers with "good" stuff. Less danger for them and their customers?

#5 Amsterdam have it legalised and STILL have problems with pimps and drugs. That would never happen here of course. We know what we are doing. Legalise and all the problems just disappear. More liberal wishy washy let them do their own thing rubbish.
10

GPS Tracking,

CO 03/09/2008 19:57:32
I thought prostitution was illegal in the US. I think
are a great way to make things safe, but this has taken things to extreme. I guess the other way of looking at it is at least they are being safe. A great place to purchase a tracking device would be www.rmtracking.com.
11

sexygpsshoes-AM,

New York/San Francisco 04/09/2008 06:27:59
We have been working on a similar project for 5 years. We would be happy to share the findings of our research and technology towards the development of open-source wearable location based communication systems for the support and protection of sex workers.

-AM
www.sexygpsshoes.com

 

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