Note
"Research and Evaluation Branch Report, Community, Contract and Aboriginal Policing Services Directorate."
"2006."
Issued also in French under title: L'expérience de la réglementation de la prostitution par la police au Pays-Bas : une étude de cas.
Summary
On November 2004, the Canadian Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety
and Emergency Preparedness gave the Subcommittee on Solicitation Laws the mandate to
examine prostitution laws in order to improve the safety of sex workers and of the whole
community. The RCMP as well as many other witnesses were invited to appear before the
Committee and to submit a brief. The Committee released its report in December 2006 (Canada.
Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, 2006). In the following months the RCMP
started a study on prostitution from the police perspective to document issues at stake and the
impact of the status quo, of legalization and decriminalization on the police (LeBeuf, 2006). At
the same time, in order to evaluate the impact of decriminalization of prostitution on police
action and roles, interviews and field work were conducted with police officers and non
governmental organizations (NGOs) in the Netherlands in January 2006. This report is a
summary of a case study on the Dutch situation.