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Developing a strategy to remove prostitution from the streets of Ipswich

In this, my fourth blog in the series, I will outline how the Ipswich Street Prostitution Strategy was formulated and how it was turned into effective operational activity. How we overcame the challenge of getting a range of agencies to sign up to one single aim and a new approach. I will also outline how we evaluated our success or otherwise.

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How Suffolk police responded to the Ipswich prostitute murders

In this second blog former Detective Superintendent Alan Caton OBE outlines how Suffolk police responded to reports of missing persons in Ipswich that subsequently led to the biggest investigation of its type in the UK.

The morning of Wednesday 1st November 2006, was like any other busy morning in Ipswich police station, but it was the discussions at the daily management meeting that were to trigger the biggest police investigation ever seen in Suffolk.

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