Pimping.

Selling coke and pimping women.

Pimping! Don't you understand me?

The title of Chapter V, which deals with the crime of pimping and trafficking in women, was changed to pimping and trafficking in persons .

The main form of trafficking in women in Estonia is pimping.

The Penal Code combines the offences of procuring and pimping in one article, even though they are separate offences.

All forms of inducing a person to prostitution and of pimping are punishable as a criminal offence in Estonia.

The Central Criminal Police deals with the criminal cases of pimping where prostitutes from Estonia are taken to other countries.

The same people who are active in drugs business and, in particular, smuggling of drugs are often also involved in pimping.

There are no similar special units in other police prefectures and the cases of pimping are handled by bureaus of organised crime.

The working group gathers information about pimping, systematises the data, carries out surveillance proceedings and deals with pre trial investigation of criminal cases.

The group was formed in Tallinn because it is estimated that approximately 80 of all the cases of pimping take place in Tallinn and its vicinity.

Based on the study a report Prostitution. Social risks and economic pressure was compiled, which showed that 2 3 of the population support the current law that prohibits pimping.

The legal definitions of offences such as pimping, procuring and trafficking in persons are inadequate to the scope of the problem of commercial sexual exploitation, especially of children and young persons.

Since 1 November 2003 there is a special working group under the division of crimes against persons of the Criminal Department the North Tallinn Police Prefecture whose aim is to fight against pimping.

In the first half of 2004 the Central Criminal Police commenced or sent to court four criminal cases in which the investigation had been started under section 268 of the Penal Code on pimping.

Pimping, or providing premises for the purposes of illegal consumption of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, for organising illegal gambling, or for prostitution, is punishable by a pecuniary punishment or up to 5 years' imprisonment.

It modifies the Penal Code, taking out the expression honest woman withdrawing the characterization of the crime of adultery and changing the title of one part of the Code, which becomes Pimping and Trafficking of Persons instead of Crimes against Customs , as it currently stands.