Gardaí target rising levels of prostitution in residential areas

GARDAÍ are clamping down on prostitution in Dublin’s north west inner city following complaints from local residents and politicians.

Officers arrested 38 people both prostitutes and clients in the area last month alone, new figures show. This compares with a total of 113 arrests in the area for the whole of 2003.

Outraged locals in the Montpelier and Arbour Hill area of the city have been complaining in recent months of incidents in which children and young girls were approached by kerb crawlers.