Say Anything Blog

This sounds...counterproductive.

VICTORIAN Premier Steve Bracks has defended the state’s prostitution laws after it was revealed private investigators were having sex with prostitutes to prove the case against illegal brothels.

Legal confusion over how much evidence is needed before a court has forced at least six Melbourne councils to send in private investigators to buy sex at illegal brothels. . . .

Municipal Association of Victoria president Dick Gross said councils had to go to the extreme measures because the current legal requirements to prove the brothels were illegal were confusing.

“Local government has to give two days’ notice before an authorised officer enters into one of these premises,” he said.

“So we have to use private investigators, and there’s legal controversy as to the current legal requirements (of proof).

“Some lawyers say sexual services have to be provided. One case in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court failed because the investigator had not had sex.

Here’s one of the PI’s involved in the “investigations” talking about how far they’ve been going.

“It’s completely anonymous. We are undercover operators.

“We go inside the premises (and say) ‘Hi, how are you?’ and all this, and we have done it so many times that the girls feel relaxed with us.

“The girl is naked. The investigator is naked. You receive an oil massage and, at the end of it, you receive hand relief and that’s it.”

The PI shrugs it all off with this quote:

One private investigator, who was not identified, told Southern Cross Radio receiving sexual services while investigating illegal brothels is “just another job”.

Just another job indeed.

One has to wonder if any of these investigators are married.