You’d be surprised at what a lot coppers get up to in their spare time.
Is there actually an ethical issue here beyond pearl clutching?
As long as they’re consenting adults and not traffficked/ exploited sex workers, who cares.
Of all the things Met police officers have been up to in recent times, this doesn’t seem to be a big deal.
Have they broken any laws? Pretty straightforward innit?
>Met Police Commander James Harman, who is head of the Anti-Corruption and Abuse Command, admitted that the use of a sex worker “is highly likely to be exploiting a vulnerable person, or funding organised crime, or both”.
Without knowing the details of the transaction, it shouldn’t be appropriate to fire someone for just hiring sex workers. Sex work is work and should be treated and respected as such. Painting all sex workers as vulnerable is part of the stigmatisation that many sex workers are trying to fight against.
I’d actually disagree and say they should be fired.
It’s fairly common knowledge that sexual workers are often tied to a organised crime, and there runs the risk of compromising yourself professionally.
There’s also the standards to uphold, like not going to Amsterdam and smoking cannabis, and then expected to enforce and engage with the UK laws around it.
In the same way you shouldn’t hold associations with people who use drugs, I’d say this should realistically extend to not using sex workers, despite it being legal, there is a moral grey area in doing so that you shouldn’t straddle that could compromise your own integrity.
What did anyone expect? No police officer is getting a woman lmao
Breaking News: Police office did something that isn’t illegal and didn’t hurt anyone and they weren’t sacked for it
Hey going by the met’s track record, at least they didn’t murder them, right?
I think we’d have to know more about the cases tbh.
All the same arguments people are making in this thread are exactly what the Met themselves are saying, and the fact that the other 4 officers were all on a route to dismissal (and so resigned in advance) indicates that there is likely some consideration of the individual situation going on. Ie. sounds like the other 4 might have been involved in situations where the risk of exploitation/organised crime involvement was more clear, whilst these other 2 might not have been.
I actually love how so many comments relate to corruption and immorality in policing and how much we should let slide. No wonder this country is a mess!
To any and all progressives. Is sex work ok?
Because you say it’s work, then you hate sexual relationships with power imbalances?
There’s no greater imbalance than a john and a whore.
Probably common practice in the Met to intimidate a sex worker on the way home and get a freebie
They have the right to a private life, and consensual sex work is legal in the UK (excluding NI).
“The use of sex workers”? I wouldn’t be surprised if the sex worker advocacy groups don’t object to such a degrading turn of phrase.
I’m not one to defend the police, but they should not be barred from using services like any other member of the public. Sex work is work. Obviously if they notice signs of illegality they should act, but the article doesn’t mention that.
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You’d be surprised at what a lot coppers get up to in their spare time.
Is there actually an ethical issue here beyond pearl clutching?
As long as they’re consenting adults and not traffficked/ exploited sex workers, who cares.
Of all the things Met police officers have been up to in recent times, this doesn’t seem to be a big deal.
Have they broken any laws? Pretty straightforward innit?
>Met Police Commander James Harman, who is head of the Anti-Corruption and Abuse Command, admitted that the use of a sex worker “is highly likely to be exploiting a vulnerable person, or funding organised crime, or both”.
Without knowing the details of the transaction, it shouldn’t be appropriate to fire someone for just hiring sex workers. Sex work is work and should be treated and respected as such. Painting all sex workers as vulnerable is part of the stigmatisation that many sex workers are trying to fight against.
I’d actually disagree and say they should be fired.
It’s fairly common knowledge that sexual workers are often tied to a organised crime, and there runs the risk of compromising yourself professionally.
There’s also the standards to uphold, like not going to Amsterdam and smoking cannabis, and then expected to enforce and engage with the UK laws around it.
In the same way you shouldn’t hold associations with people who use drugs, I’d say this should realistically extend to not using sex workers, despite it being legal, there is a moral grey area in doing so that you shouldn’t straddle that could compromise your own integrity.
What did anyone expect? No police officer is getting a woman lmao
Breaking News: Police office did something that isn’t illegal and didn’t hurt anyone and they weren’t sacked for it
Hey going by the met’s track record, at least they didn’t murder them, right?
I think we’d have to know more about the cases tbh.
All the same arguments people are making in this thread are exactly what the Met themselves are saying, and the fact that the other 4 officers were all on a route to dismissal (and so resigned in advance) indicates that there is likely some consideration of the individual situation going on. Ie. sounds like the other 4 might have been involved in situations where the risk of exploitation/organised crime involvement was more clear, whilst these other 2 might not have been.
I actually love how so many comments relate to corruption and immorality in policing and how much we should let slide. No wonder this country is a mess!
To any and all progressives. Is sex work ok?
Because you say it’s work, then you hate sexual relationships with power imbalances?
There’s no greater imbalance than a john and a whore.
Probably common practice in the Met to intimidate a sex worker on the way home and get a freebie
They have the right to a private life, and consensual sex work is legal in the UK (excluding NI).
“The use of sex workers”? I wouldn’t be surprised if the sex worker advocacy groups don’t object to such a degrading turn of phrase.
I’m not one to defend the police, but they should not be barred from using services like any other member of the public. Sex work is work. Obviously if they notice signs of illegality they should act, but the article doesn’t mention that.