Parents taking their children to school along a certain road in Hull claim they are being hounded by prostitutes.
The area has long been known for women plying their trade but a recent clampdown seemed to have reduced the problems.
However, fed-up residents now say the problem has got much worse in the last few weeks with passers-by being propositioned constantly.
One Coltman Street resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said: It is beyond a joke now. You cannot stop in the street now without getting propositioned. They even do it when Im with my girlfriend.
When I am going to work in the morning I have even seen parents being approached when their children are with them. I dont know how they explain what is happening to their children.
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Most of them are also on drugs and we see a lot of needles and foil left around. If you go into any telephone box it is all there.
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There are usually a minimum of six girls working but at the weekend there could be 15 to 20.
They are all the way from the Rawlings Way roundabout up to Asda. They are not just having sex in cars either. They do it in alleyways, car parks and behind buildings.
The resident says it has been getting worse more recently.
It has got a lot worse in the last three weeks, he said. There are signs up saying prostitution will not be tolerated but the women just ignore it.
They all seem addicted and you will seem some of them clutching a half-empty bottle of vodka. I was approached – it was embarrassing.
Another resident, who lives in Eton Street, also spoke of his concerns over the number of sex workers in Hessle Road.
He said: I was approached by a woman in her 50s who asked if I wanted to come back to hers. She said her father would take us. Her father? I presume it was her pimp.
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Some people I know were laughing and asked me why I was with a prostitute but I didnt think it was funny. It was embarrassing.
One Hessle Road shop owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, also says she is fed up with the problem of sex workers.
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She said: Ive had several standing around my shop door. You cant do anything about it because theyll come in and cause trouble for us.
Several prostitutes like to hang around shops disrupting the owners business and making customers, especially the men, feel unwelcome.
Police pass several times a week and never stop to do anything even though there is a ban.
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Police have been targeting sex workers in recent years and issuing them with orders banning them from working in the street.
Injunction orders under Section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 were first introduced in 2014 and Hull City Council was one of the first local authorities to use the legislation to tackle prostitution.
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Plain-clothes officers have been employed to catch kerb crawlers approaching prostitutes and using CCTV to gather evidence.
In the last three months of 2017, 16 section 222 orders were handed out to users and a further 12 warnings issued. There has also been one breach of the order by a sex trade user.
Ward Councillor Daren Hale says everything is being done to combat the number of sex workers in Hessle Road.
Inspector Kirsty Tock, of the Hull central community policing team, previously explained the work that was being done.
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She said: Hessle Road remains our main focus and, at the moment, we are tackling those seeking out sex workers. We are continuing to carry out patrols and using the injunctions to prevent prostitution on Hulls streets.
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In a landmark ruling in 2014, prostitutes and kerb crawlers found breaching the order by loitering, soliciting or having sex, face arrest and a court appearance.
The exclusion zone covers Hessle Road from Coltman Street to Hawthorne Avenue, along Woodcock Street, Gordon Street and Cholmley Street.
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