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Sex with vice girls 'okay for HK cops if it's work'
HONG KONG - There is nothing wrong with a little hanky-panky with prostitutes for Hong Kong's undercover cops - as long as it's in the line of duty.
Hong Kong's top police spokesman Tang How Kong said this on a local radio talk show on Monday after he was confronted with complaints that some policemen were demanding free sex from streetwalkers. He added that the cops derived no pleasure from such contacts.
'If you ask the officers, I don't think any of them will use the adjective 'enjoyable'. It's disgusting work,' he said.
Prostitution is legal in Hong Kong but brothels and solicitation are not.
Mr Tang insisted that the policemen were behaving professionally in their limited contact with prostitutes. 'Limited contact' can include masturbation with the 'targets of their undercover investigations' for the purpose of gathering evidence, he said.He said it would be unacceptable for officers to extort free sexual favours from prostitutes, but did not deny that it happened.
Another police spokesman, Mr Patrick Wong, also defended the department. 'Some physical contact is acceptable,' Mr Wong said yesterday. 'It's inevitable.'
But lawmaker James To rejected the police explanation, saying he did not believe it was necessary for undercover officers to go so far.
Prostitutes have been complaining this week that some police demanded their services without paying for them.
Ms Elaine Lam, spokesman for Zi Teng, a trade union for sex workers, said the group received 76 complaints from March to October from members who claimed they were harassed by cops.
Some officers demanded free sex, while others extorted money from the prostitutes, she told Apple Daily.
A recent survey by the Polytechnic University found that 52 per cent of the 150 sex workers polled said they were unhappy with the way they were treated by police officers during raids.
More than 70 per cent who encountered undercover cops said they were asked to provide free sex, according to the survey. \-- AP
