"State police training institutes will now have commercial sex workers holding class in an effort to address the sex workers’ complaint of police harassment.
Ceaseless complaints by sex workers and pressure from international HIV/ AIDS prevention and control agencies prompted the state to place sex workers in classrooms to teach trainee constables about HIV...
The first batch of 11,000 constables will complete its course soon. While personnel in Mumbai and Thane are the first to get the training, it will soon be extended to other parts of the state."
- Sex workers will help train, sensitise police
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Prostitution 'increases' in India
- Two million sex workers in 1997 had risen to three million by 2003-04
- The study found that 90% of the prostitutes are in the 15-35 age group and their average work life spans 15 years.
- Prostitutes operating on the street and brothels earn between 2,000 to 24,000 rupees ($43-522) per month, whereas call girls make 40,000-800,000 rupees ($870-17,300).
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