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Why couldn't Kent and Sussex cope in the floods? We have a special | :00:07. | :00:23. | |
report. The secret underground town of | :00:24. | :00:39. | |
Ramsgate in World War II. And when prostitutes are victims of | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
crime. I'm Natalie Graham with untold | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
stories, closer to home. From all round the South East, this hs Inside | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
Out. Hi, I'm at Rock`a`Nore in Hastings | :00:48. | :01:09. | |
where the recent bad weather actually brought down the cliffs | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
last week. And there are plenty of people who | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
think that is the perfect mdtaphor think that is the perfect mdtaphor | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
for what happened to the electricity for what happened to the electricity | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
network over Christmas. But as the clear up continues the question is, | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
what went wrong? And what if it happens again? Vince Rogers reports. | :01:32. | :01:43. | |
It was the night before the night before Christmas in Faversh`m. | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
before Christmas in Faversham. Electricity failed. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
The electricity suppliers s`y Electricity failed. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
The electricity suppliers say that The electricity suppliers s`y that | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Kent and Sussex were the hardest hit. Their engineers dealt with more | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
than 1300 incidents involving more than 200,000 customers. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
This was one of them. I decided than 200,000 customers. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
This was one of them. I dechded to This was one of them. I dechded to | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
keep a diary of all the events as they unfolded. | :02:24. | :02:24. | |
Spoke to Craig. Puts me on hold. Spoke to Craig. Puts me on hold. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
After five minus the line w`s cut After five minus the line was cut | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
off. Some of the energy companies did not | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
have enough the Pope for an emergency response. `` some of the | :02:42. | :02:51. | |
energy companies did not have enough employees for an emergency response. | :02:52. | :03:06. | |
It is not acceptable. UK power networks declined to be | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
interviewed. But they point out that most homes were restored quickly and | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
most homes were restored quhckly and that many employees gave up their | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
Christmas holidays to help out. The companies think they did not do as | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
badly as has made out. They do not control the weather. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
They do not control the weather They control how they respond to it. | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
One of the networks has admitted One of the networks has admitted | :03:42. | :03:42. | |
that they should not have ldt so that they should not have ldt so | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
many people go on holiday. I was many people go on holiday. H was | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
advised that an engineer had been assigned the job. | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
The storms had different people in different ways. This was thd | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
The storms had different people in different ways. This was the River | :04:06. | :04:05. | |
different ways. This was thd River Medway on Christmas Day. | :04:06. | :04:17. | |
Further downstream. Christmas Day was worse. People were | :04:18. | :04:33. | |
warned to get off their boats. This is the level of my boat. Th`t | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
warned to get off their boats. This is the level of my boat. That window | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
was looking out onto the top of that tree. But what happened in the | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
south`east was different to the storms that have been battlhng the | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
storms that have been battling the rest of the country. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
There was lots of rain that caused localised flooding. We have had | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
localised flooding from surface water. That is similar to what we | :05:06. | :05:15. | |
saw in 2007. Phoned three times. Just got Ackroyd | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
voices speaking. No wonder spoke to me. | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
This professor says that one of our This professor says that ond of our | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
priorities should be to makd our electricity supply waterproof. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Is that easy to do? It is rdlatively Is that easy to do? It is relatively | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
easy to do. Move the equipmdnt Is that easy to do? It is rdlatively | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
easy to do. Move the equipment off easy to do. Move the equipment off | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
the ground. Some of the measures can be as | :05:46. | :05:58. | |
simple as that. Building thresholds at our slightly higher level could | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
make a big difference to how resilient communities are to | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
flooding. Worldly electricity companies do that? You cannot | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
prepare for every eventuality. There is a trade off between resilience | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
and cost. At Gatwick airport be built in flood | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
defences for the South termhnal but defences for the South termhnal but | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
not the North terminal, because they not the North terminal, bec`use they | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
were advised that a flood there would be rare. But it did flood, | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
would be rare. But it did flood resulting in chaos. We need to wake | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
up to the fact that with clhmate up to the fact that with climate | :06:40. | :06:40. | |
change this will be more frdquent. change this will be more frdquent. | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
Back in Faversham... It is good news. Power switch on. | :06:48. | :06:59. | |
Lights working. After 169 hours power is restored. | :07:00. | :07:12. | |
Do you feel there is a lack of a sense of urgency? There is `lways | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
Do you feel there is a lack of a sense of urgency? There is always a | :07:16. | :07:15. | |
sense of urgency? There is `lways a sense of urgency when we experience | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
flooding. Will the day come when we are | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
prepared for any weather? Vince Rogers reporting. Coming up on | :07:30. | :07:56. | |
Inside Out: Is enough being done to help prostitutes who are victims of | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
crime? I remember his weight on top of me. I cannot remember his face. | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Now, most people will think of Dover as being the most important town on | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
the front line in Kent during World War II. But just along the coast is | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Ramsgate which also played ` War II. But just along the coast is | :08:21. | :08:21. | |
Ramsgate which also played a huge Ramsgate which also played a huge | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
role in the defence of the country. And yet many of the town's wartime | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
secrets lie buried and forgotten deep below the ground. | :08:27. | :08:42. | |
You could go all over Ramsgate You could go all over Ramsg`te | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
underground. If you couldn't go outside you went underground. | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
Everyone felt that sort of comfort when they were down here, that they | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
were safe because of the depth of the tunnels. | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
They put signposts up underneath. There were signposts there to King | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
Street, Queen Street, Bound`ry Road, Street, Queen Street, Boundary Road, | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
where the different entrances were. Everybody was chatting as though | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
they were in the street. 60 feet underneath the town of | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Ramsgate is this network of tunnels. We're in a labyrinth which hs three | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
and a half miles long and during the and a half miles long and during the | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
war this became a refuge, a secret underground town which saved the | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
lives of many people. The tunnels were dug in just nine | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
months, at the beginning of the Second World War using mostly picks | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
and shovels and provided shdlter for and shovels and provided shdlter for | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
26,000 people. They have bedn abandoned for 75 years but Phil | :09:37. | :09:37. | |
Spain and the Ramsgate Tunndls Team Spain and the Ramsgate Tunndls Team | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
has been working on a project to restore them. | :09:42. | :09:53. | |
Ramsgate's geology allowed a plan restore them. | :09:54. | :09:54. | |
Ramsgate's geology allowed ` plan to Ramsgate's geology allowed a plan to | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
build two and a half miles of tunnels around the town which would | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
link up with this former railway link up with this former rahlway | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
tunnel. Initially they couldn't get permission from the governmdnt | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
because it was against government policy. But they kept putting | :10:04. | :10:04. | |
forward this case and the mayor of forward this case and the mayor of | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
Ramsgate at the time, ABC Kdmpe Ramsgate at the time, ABC Kdmpe | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
took up the cause. He was known as the Mad Mayor. He pushed this | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
the Mad Mayor. He pushed thhs project for the tunnels really hard | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
and eventually he won permission for them to be dug. At that time they | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
them to be dug. At that timd they were the only civilian tunnels | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
were the only civilian tunndls sanctioned by central government. | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
They refused everybody else. The tunnels were soon to prove their | :10:26. | :10:26. | |
worth. Saturday August 24 1940 The tunnels were soon to prove their | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
worth. Saturday August 24 1840 was The tunnels were soon to prove their | :10:32. | :10:31. | |
worth. Saturday August 24 1940 was a worth. Saturday August 24 1840 was a | :10:32. | :10:31. | |
day that's etched on the memory worth. Saturday August 24 1940 was a | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
day that's etched on the melory of day that's etched on the memory of | :10:34. | :10:33. | |
many people who lived in Ralsgate. many people who lived in Ralsgate. | :10:34. | :10:44. | |
They dropped 500 bombs in five They dropped 500 bombs in fhve | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
minutes and it devastated complete areas of the town. But it dhdn't | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
areas of the town. But it didn't kill a large number of people? No, | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
no they all had time to get down in the shelters. 28 people were | :10:56. | :10:56. | |
no they all had time to get down in the shelters. 28 people werd killed. | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
So that Mad Mayor's plan really the shelters. 28 people were killed. | :10:59. | :10:59. | |
So that Mad Mayor's plan re`lly came So that Mad Mayor's plan really came | :11:00. | :11:14. | |
into its own very early on? Over a 1,000 houses were destroyed during | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
what became known as the murder raid and hundreds of people moved into | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
the tunnels permanently. Marjorie Woodward was 17 in 194 and | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
was training to be a teacher. For one of her assignments she wrote | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
about the families who lived in the tunnels. They did not want to leave | :11:31. | :12:10. | |
the tunnel. The main tunnel was a disusdd | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
railway tunnel which had a mainline railway tunnel which had a lainline | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
down the middle, but quite ample space each side. It was these that | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
became the tunnel town. At first there were benches in the tunnel and | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
people slept on those and then they took deckchairs and cushions and | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
then camp beds. At that time most of the chhldren | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
At that time most of the children from Ramsgate were evacuated, but | :12:39. | :12:39. | |
the ones that stayed at home lived the ones that stayed at homd lived | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
in the tunnels. Marjorie relembers that there wasn't school for 18 | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
months, and the children, who were left to run wild, were | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
affectionately known as tunnel rats. And Gwendolyne Langridge was one of | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
those children. She was 12 xears old and lived in the tunnel for two | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
years. We used to sleep down there because | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
we were getting disturbed nights. we were getting disturbed nhghts. | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
And it wasn't good for us. And we were getting disturbed nights. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
And it wasn't good for us. @nd so we were getting disturbed nhghts. | :13:06. | :13:05. | |
And it wasn't good for us. And so we And it wasn't good for us. And so we | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
used to stay but in the morning Mum and Dad came up because he had to go | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
to work, but us children stayed and we had a wonderful time. We used to | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
go up to Dumpton Park Drive. It had a lot of steps up to that one and it | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
had an air raid warden's post at the top and he used to say, "Whdre are | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
top and he used to say, "Where are you kids going?" "Oh we're just | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
going out for some fresh air, so we're just going to stand at the | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
top." And then popped down again. we're just going to stand at the | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
top." And then popped down `gain. We top." And then popped down `gain. We | :13:34. | :13:34. | |
were like rabbits. Elsie Stygale was 18 in 1940 and she | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
remembers one particular man who lived down in the tunnels for longer | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
than the others. His name was Shell. We called him | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
Shell, I think, because he was shell shocked from the First World War. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
When the war broke out he w`s When the war broke out he was | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
terrified so he went down into the tunnels and stayed there. And people | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
used to take him down food, fish and chips, bring his washing up and do | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
his washing for him. And he didn't come up for about four years. And | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
then they managed to persuade him to come up. "It's all over, Shell. | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
There is nothing happening, it's all finished." And he walked up lots of | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
steps to come up. And he got to the top of the steps and dropped down | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
dead. Soon the tunnels were the talk of the town. There's reports in | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
papers around the world of how good the tunnels were, and people, | :14:40. | :14:40. | |
papers around the world of how good the tunnels were, and peopld, famous | :14:41. | :14:40. | |
the tunnels were, and people, famous people, came to visit, just to see | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
what it was all about. Perh`ps the most famous was the Prime Minister, | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Winston Churchill. He came to Ramsgate to inspect the dam`ge on | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
the August 24th raid, and actually got caught up in another attack. He | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
had to take shelter in the tunnels. Right, so if it wasn't for these | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
tunnels, we might not of had Churchill! Quite possibly! He was | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
told by our rather flamboyant Mayor to put his cigar out before he | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
entered, because there was no smoking. So he was put in hhs | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
entered, because there was no smoking. So he was put in his place. | :15:12. | :15:12. | |
smoking. So he was put in hhs place. # Forget your troubles, come on, get | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
# Forget your troubles, comd on get happy. | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
# You better chase all your cares away #. Every year, the people of | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Ramsgate remember the 1940s with a wartime event on the seafront. And | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
many people living here believe wartime event on the seafront. And | :15:28. | :15:29. | |
many people living here belheve its many people living here belheve its | :15:30. | :15:30. | |
unique history shouldn't be forgotten. I think we should be well | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
known for our harbour rescuing forgotten. I think we should be well | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
known for our harbour rescuhng so known for our harbour rescuing so | :15:38. | :15:38. | |
many men from Dunkirk, and the tunnels which were able to house our | :15:39. | :15:50. | |
population during a bad time. I would like to see them opendd again | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
would like to see them opened again to encourage people. It could be, | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
from an educational perspective, very good. And also, from a tourist | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
attraction, it could revitalise Ramsgate. It is so unique. I'm not | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
going to say I'd like to go through it again. I wouldn't. But I wouldn't | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
mind living down the tunnel. Now, women in prostitution `re the | :16:12. | :16:23. | |
group at highest risk of rape and other violence. Yet they're often | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
afraid to report these crimds to other violence. Yet they're often | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
afraid to report these crimes to the afraid to report these crimds to the | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
police for fear of arrest themselves. Author and campaigner | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Ruth Jacobs, who used to work in prostitution herself, investigates | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
what can be done in the south`east. I should warn you some viewers | :16:40. | :16:40. | |
what can be done in the south`east. I should warn you some viewdrs may | :16:41. | :16:40. | |
I should warn you some viewers may find parts of this film disturbing. | :16:41. | :16:53. | |
My interest in the safety of sex trade workers isn't academic. Until | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
15 years ago, I was a prostitute in 15 years ago, I was a prosthtute in | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
London. Even though I didn't know it at the time, the trauma of | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
prostitution would always remain with me. Recourse to justicd | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
prostitution would always rdmain with me. Recourse to justice after | :17:14. | :17:14. | |
with me. Recourse to justicd after being the victim of a violent crime | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
is extremely rare for people being the victim of a violent crime | :17:17. | :17:17. | |
is extremely rare for peopld in is extremely rare for people in | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
prostitution, as it was for me when I was in the sex trade. My report of | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
rape was ignored, and that's the case for many others like md. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Amanda, whose name we've changed, was raped by a punter who rdfused to | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
wear a condom. When I met her, she'd just stopped working as a c`ll | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
wear a condom. When I met hdr, she'd just stopped working as a call girl, | :17:37. | :17:36. | |
just stopped working as a c`ll girl, from Eastbourne to Southampton. I | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
said, "Look, here's the protection. Put the condom on." But then all I | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
remember after that is just flashes. I remember saying no. And I remember | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
his weight on top of me. I can't even remember his face. I ndver ever | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
fought back because he was a big, fat, disgusting, greasy man, and I | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
knew if I went to the police, all they'd think is, "You were there for | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
sex anyway, so what difference does it make?" But I never told anyone, | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
because I thought, "Who's going to believe a prostitute?" I'd heard so | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
many times that, the thing hs, if you rape a prostitute, it's just | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
shoplifting. Oh, God, I haven't even heard that before. Amanda s`ys | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
shoplifting. Oh, God, I havdn't even heard that before. Amanda says that | :18:20. | :18:19. | |
heard that before. Amanda s`ys that when she reported the rape, it was | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
never investigated properly by the police. Did they do anything to | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
pursue the rapist? No. It w`s probably a year after the incident. | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
They sent me the rape alarm by post. They sent me a leaflet for domestic | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
abuse ` help, support in that respect, but they never phoned me. | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
They never contacted. They never asked me anything about what had | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
happened. But, because you were in prostitution, you get a rapd | :18:44. | :18:44. | |
happened. But, because you were in prostitution, you get a rape alarm, | :18:45. | :18:44. | |
prostitution, you get a rapd alarm, and the other women get all this | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
other stuff. That's how it feels, anyway. It makes me feel like I'm | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
anyway. It makes me feel like I m not human. It makes me feel that I'm | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
not entitled to the same level of care and respect as anybody else. | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
There's one part of the country where they are doing things | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
differently. Merseyside. Until seven years ago the same distrust had | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
existed between people in the sex trade and the police. I want to find | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
out about the initiative whhch turned the tide on violence against | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
people in the sex trade. Merseyside Police Detective Tracy O'Hara | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
regularly patrols the areas where women in street prostitution | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
operate. I only work at the nick over there, I'm going back on duty | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
now. So I can get a car and come and make you safe and get you somewhere. | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
My role is to keep people s`fe and is to protect people. I'm not there | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
to put her in a car and take is to protect people. I'm not there | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
to put her in a car and takd her is to protect people. I'm not there | :19:46. | :19:46. | |
to put her in a car and take her to a police station then and there I'm | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
a police station then and there. I'm there to find out what's gohng on | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
there to find out what's going on for her. Tracy works closelx | :19:51. | :19:51. | |
there to find out what's gohng on for her. Tracy works closely with | :19:52. | :19:51. | |
for her. Tracy works closelx with specialist health workers from an | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
NHS drop`in centre in Liverpool. NHS drop`in centre in Liverpool. | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
They offer advice to sex tr`de They offer advice to sex trade | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
workers, and they have seen numbers on the streets drop by half since a | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
Hate Crime Model was adopted. In the 80s and into the 90s, this `rea was | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
80s and into the 90s, this area was worked. It isn't now. So it really | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
hoes how things like policing and regeneration can really change a | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
street beat. So you're dealing regeneration can really change a | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
street beat. So you're dealhng with street beat. So you're dealhng with | :20:17. | :20:17. | |
a constantly changing situation. street beat. So you're dealing with | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
a constantly changing situation And a constantly changing situation. And | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
this was quite a dangerous `rea We had a lot of women who were | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
attacked. So there was a huge drive then to really do something quickly, | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
and get something happening to protect sex workers. It was the | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
murder of Ann Marie Foye th`t protect sex workers. It was the | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
murder of Ann Marie Foye that proved murder of Ann Marie Foye that proved | :20:36. | :20:35. | |
the catalyst to get the polhce in the catalyst to get the police in | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
Liverpool to declare all crhmes Liverpool to declare all crimes | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
against people in prostituthon as hate crimes. Back in 2006, we | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
invoked what we call the Hate Crime Model. So in the same way that we | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
address issues around homophobic attacks on people, or racially | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
motivated attacks, or attacks on people for other discriminatory | :20:54. | :20:54. | |
reasons... We decided that `ttacks reasons... We decided that `ttacks | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
on sex workers, if these attacks occurred during their work as a sex | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
worker, we would devote a shmilar worker, we would devote a shmilar | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
approach to that which we do with other strands of hate crime. May was | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
also working alone she was attacked and raped. He slapped me, and he | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
repeatedly raped me, and I still have nightmares today. You thought, | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
when you were in there, that he was going to kill you? I did. The only | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
reason I managed to escape was because he fell asleep. So I crept | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
down the stairs, and as I w`s down the stairs, and as I w`s | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
opening the bolt, it started squeaking really loud. I felt him | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
touch the back of my hair. So I just opened the door and ran. I phoned | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
the police straightaway, as I thought I was going to die that | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
night. May was introduced to Shelly Stoops, who was to help her all the | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
way through her case. This led to the rapist being sentenced to ten | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
years without parole. I really wanted him off the street as I | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
didn't want other girls to go through what I went through. It was | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
absolutely horrendous. So that's how they do things on Merseysidd. But | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
what about somewhere like Medway? what about somewhere like Medway? | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
Ann Barnes, the Police and Crime Commissioner, wanted to tell me | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
about an award`winning schele they about an award`winning schele they | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
have here called Safe Exit. As you can see, this is a really lovely | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
part of the Medway Towns. It's one of my favourite bits of it. Over | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
there, there's some lovely @lms there, there's some lovely Alms | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
houses. It's a really nice `rea to houses. It's a really nice area to | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
live. There used to be a lot of street workers around this | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
particular area. Kent Policd, working with the local council and | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
with the health service, have really turned this place around. So where | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
are they are they? Are they working in a different area of Kent? Are | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
they in brothels? Are they on the internet? I don't have any evidence | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
internet? I don't have any dvidence to say they've been dispersed | :22:49. | :22:49. | |
to say they've been dispersdd elsewhere. I think about 120 women | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
were working the streets, this area, in 2007`8, when this Safe Exit | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
programme started. There are now programme started. There are now | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
about 17. It worried me that these women were unaccounted for, and | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
making contact with the people running the scheme was to prove | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
difficult. After repeatedly asking for access to the Safe Exit scheme | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
over several months, I still couldn't establish how many women | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
had been helped by it. With no help from the press office, we sdnt Kent | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Police a freedom of information request. What became clear was that, | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
during the time the Safe Exit request. What became clear was that, | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
during the time the Safe Exht scheme during the time the Safe Exit scheme | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
was running, arrests of women in prostitution in this area rocketed. | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
That said to me the police weren't acting in the women's interests. | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
That said to me the police weren't acting in the women's interdsts A | :23:43. | :23:42. | |
acting in the women's interests. A criminal record is a major obstacle | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
when seeking employment and keeps women trapped in prostitution. This | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
is nothing like the police approach is nothing like the police `pproach | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
in Merseyside. So I managed to make contact with two public servants | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
associated with Safe Exit who were willing to tell me what happened, as | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
long as their identities could willing to tell me what happened, as | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
long as their identities could be protected. They went around and | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
pulled the girls off New Ro`d, protected. They went around and | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
pulled the girls off New Road, with pulled the girls off New Ro`d, with | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
ASBOs. They set up two houses in Medway. They were kind of s`fe | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
houses. It was very much a police initiative. I remember there was | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
houses. It was very much a police initiative. I remember therd was no | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
aftercare. So the women who have experience of the Safe Exit scheme ` | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
did anyone actually get helped by that? Any counselling, help out of | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
poverty... There was one girl who managed to get clean and st`y clean, | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
but unfortunately she died. It seemed more like social engineering, | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
where they thought they could put a quick and dirty ill`thought out | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
programme in place, and two plus two would equal four. They would all | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
exit prostitution and lead happy, safe lives thereafter. But there was | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
no real extra funding for this and it was ill`thought out. What was | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
happening was that the women that we had been working with suddenly | :25:02. | :25:02. | |
stopped talking to us, so we had been working with suddenly | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
stopped talking to us, so wd weren't stopped talking to us, so we weren't | :25:05. | :25:05. | |
able to help them keep themselves safe on the streets. For all of the | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
furore about how successful this scheme was, it has had no ilpact | :25:13. | :25:13. | |
furore about how successful this scheme was, it has had no impact on | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
the lives of women working hn the sex industry in Chatham. It was just | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
a big political PR stunt. When we told Kent Police about what our | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
sources had said, they then agreed to an interview. They say that they | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
have to balance what is best for both the sex workers and the | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
community at large. Soliciting and kerb crawling both are crimhnal | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
kerb crawling both are criminal offences, and Kent will alw`ys | :25:38. | :25:38. | |
kerb crawling both are crimhnal offences, and Kent will always take | :25:39. | :25:38. | |
offences, and Kent will alw`ys take a strong, hard`line approach to any | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
criminal offences. We will `lso a strong, hard`line approach to any | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
criminal offences. We will also deal criminal offences. We will `lso deal | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
very robustly with any anti`social behaviour issues. But what we | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
mustn't lose sight of is the behaviour issues. But what we | :25:51. | :25:51. | |
mustn't lose sight of is thd fact mustn't lose sight of is the fact | :25:52. | :25:52. | |
that the sex workers are thdmselves that the sex workers are themselves | :25:53. | :25:53. | |
vunerable. For me, it's a fhne vunerable. For me, it's a fine | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
balance between enforcing the law, but also providing support `nd | :25:59. | :25:59. | |
but also providing support and engagement. Well, were the women in | :26:00. | :26:12. | |
Medway given a Safe Exit or are they still working? I found over 1000 | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
people advertising sexual sdrvices people advertising sexual sdrvices | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
in Kent and Sussex on one prominent adult internet site. In Thanet, I | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
met a local councillor, Ian Driver, who sees street sex work happening | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
on his patch every day. You could drive round here most evenings, and | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
you can see people at work from the sex industry. How do you feel police | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
sex industry. How do you fedl police treat people in the sex trade? I | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
think pretty badly. They've got very old`fashioned views. My impression | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
is that the police in Thanet, and probably in Kent as a whole, are | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
less than sympathetic. They still have the view that the sex trade is | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
something to be clamped down upon, something to be forced out `s much | :27:12. | :27:20. | |
as they can, so they take a very punitive and a very aggresshve | :27:21. | :27:21. | |
punitive and a very aggressive stance towards the sex tradd in | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
Thanet, which I think is totally wrong. White back my contacts | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
associated with Safe Exit s`y it's about to be relaunched. If it is, | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
will the new version followdd the Merseyside model of prioritising | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
protection and building trusting relationships with the police and | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
outreach services? I am sceptical about this. They haven't involved | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
outreach projects, and it sdems about this. They haven't involved | :27:51. | :27:52. | |
outreach projects, and it sdems 1 million miles away from the | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
Merseyside approach. Now, if you want any more | :28:00. | :28:01. | |
information about tonight's show, you can visit our local Kent or | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
Sussex websites. You can also watch the show again on iPlayer. Coming up | :28:06. | :28:16. | |
next week: An energy special. The meter has definitely been interfered | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
with, because it has a fake seal. Hunting down the power thieves ` we | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
join the British Gas Detecthves This is a huge problem. We feel | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
about ?500 million worth of gas and electricity are stolen a ye`r. What | :28:33. | :28:33. | |
electricity are stolen a year. What happens when the elderly get cold? | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
We turn pensioners into guinea pigs to find out. We just live in this | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
room to keep warm. It's just enough to keep you warm. And two years | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
room to keep warm. It's just enough to keep you warm. And two ydars of | :28:47. | :28:47. | |
the controversial Glynde wind turbine. Was it worth it, or is it | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
just spin? That's it from us for tonight from | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
Hastings. Thanks for watching, and see you next week. | :28:58. | :29:07. | |
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