Police admits to abuses of sex workers

Spokesman for the Police, Colonel Frank Durán said the National Police ordered an investigation into findings by Amnesty International of abuses of the Police agents against sex workers. According to Amnesty International of the 97,000 102,000 sex workers, including 5,000 transgender, around 89% have suffered physical or verbal abuse by police agents.

The Police acknowledged it has two cases of complaints, one in Santiago and the other in the Colonial City in which policemen were involved and penalized according to the rulings.

In the study presented by Erika Guevara Rosa, director for the Americas for Amnesty International, she said that they interviewed 46 sex workers, of which 10 said they had been raped by policemen.

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1 April 2019