Residents protest against street prostitution.
On the same day about 250 people marched through St Kilda protesting against street prostitution, police said they had applied for temporary assistance to boost numbers in the area under the state's local priority policing program. He said police were charging between 12 and 15 people a night for soliciting sex in the area. This placed a considerable drain on resources in one of Melbourne's busiest policing districts, he said. Nearly all the participants in yesterday's march, as well as some police, expressed frustration at the lack of a coordinated government response to street prostitution. We will be working with governments to ameliorate conditions for all stakeholders, with a bottom line that street sex is not acceptable in any area.