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Mobile phone networks have been asked to cut off pimps and prostitutes ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

City Hall chiefs have called on top phone companies to help crack down on prostitution and trafficking in the lead up to the sporting event.

They want help targeting numbers advertised on thousands of sex calling cards that litter phone boxes throughout the capital.

Kit Malthouse, deputy mayor for policing, said the mobile phone numbers are a valuable resource for those behind the sex industry.

He said an agreement must be reached between mobile phone networks and police that sees them taken out of use as soon as they are identified.

Mr Malthouse said: "If you are an American tourist and if you walk into a telephone box you would think it was a sex shop.

"We want a streamlined, agreed process for barring these numbers because they become very valuable for a number of reasons.

"Firstly, they become a source of repeat business. Plus the numbers operate as a kind of switchboard, there will be several poor girls operating behind the number.  更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/

"Hopefully it will become dangerous to advertise your number in these boxes because you may loose your business.

"If you are a trafficker or pimp all you are interested in is money, you are certainly not interested in the welfare of the women or young girls."

Chief executives of all the major mobile operators have been invited to a meeting at City Hall in October.

City Hall named Vodafone, Orange, Virgin and T-Mobile as the main companies in their sights.

Police have already warned that the Olympics may fuel an unprecedented boom in London"s sex industry.

Sex workers from across the world are expected to attempt to cash in on thousands of site workers, spectators and athletes.

Mr Malthouse has campaigned to ban sex service calling cards since 2000 when he worked as a councillor in Westminster.

At one point campaigners stood in Oxford Street handing out calling cards printed with details of mobile phone company bosses.

Placing prostitute calling cards in phone boxes is a criminal offence but those leaving cards have to be caught in the act, making it difficult for police to arrest them.