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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

UK police accused by MPs of ‘cosying up’ to ‘pimping websites’

Hand holds a smartphone displaying an image of a woman in stilettos
Police did not say whether working with such sites to gather intelligence of traffickers had yielded any prosecutions. Photograph: Tero Vesalainen/Alamy

Senior police officers have “cosied up” to “pimping websites” that allegedly allow trafficked women to be “raped multiple times a day”, MPs have said.

Dame Diana Johnson, the chair of the home affairs select committee, said it was “disgraceful” that police forces and the National Crime Agency (NCA) were engaging with businesses such as Vivastreet.

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