A red-light district or pleasure district is a part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses , such as sex shops , strip clubs , and adult theaters , are found. In most cases, red-light districts are particularly associated with female street prostitution , though in some cities, these areas may coincide with spaces of male prostitution and gay venues. Areas in many big cities around the world have acquired an international reputation as red-light districts.
17-596: (Redirected from BEPO ) Bepo or BEPO may refer to: BÉPO , a keyboard layout optimized for the French language Bereitschaftspolizei or "BEPO", anti-riot units of the German Federal Police and Landespolizei British Experimental Pile 0 or "BEPO", an early British nuclear reactor built by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment Bepo,
34-506: A fictional polar bear who is a member and navigator of the Heart Pirates under Trafalgar Law in the Japanese shōnen manga series One Piece See also [ edit ] Beppo (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bepo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
51-498: A wide variety of specialised vehicles such as armoured cars, buses, water cannons, earth moving equipment and command and control vehicles. Arrest units give the Bepos special capabilities to secure evidence and arrest perpetrators at events where large crowds normally impede police operations. See article: Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft The East German Ministry of the Interior maintained
68-658: The Landespolizei (state police) and are available for crowd control, (large) demonstrations, sport events and to assist the Schutzpolizei when needed. Aside from their primary functions, in some states they also train police recruits who serve about three years in combined training and service in these police support units. The units of one federal state can be deployed to assist the police of another state in case of riots, civil disturbances as well as catastrophes. Their day-to-day duties vary by locality. In Hamburg they patrol
85-681: The Bereitschaftspolizei contingents are formed into 600 - 800 person battalions, but in the six largest Länder they are organized into regiments. Some police forces like Hamburg have additional alert platoons that are part of the state police and staffed by regular police officers in case of urgent need when support from the state or the Federal Police is not available. The units are equipped with their own transport and rations allowing them to be deployed quickly to other Länder without having to rely on outside support. They are equipped with
102-667: The Dodge City use was likely responsible for the term's pervasiveness. A widespread folk etymology claims that early railroad workers took red lanterns with them when they visited brothels so their crew could find them in the event of an emergency. However, folklorist Barbara Mikkelson regards this as unfounded. A more plausible explanation might originate from the time when sailors came back from sea to Amsterdam ( c. 1650 ): Women working as prostitutes, deprived of proper hygiene and running fresh water, carrying red lanterns — with their color camouflaging boils, zits, inequalities in
119-613: The People's Police in East Berlin had three units located in Basdorf . Each Alert unit was organized as follows: These units were equipped with light and medium infantry weapons, SK-1 wheeled armoured personnel carriers, SK-2 water cannon (both armoured and unarmoured versions) and buses . Their uniform was the standard Volkspolizei grey-green. The political reliability of the Alert Units
136-671: The country in Ratzeburg, Uelzen, Blumberg, Bad Düben, Duderstadt, Sankt Augustin, Hünfeld, Bayreuth , Bad Bergzabern and Deggendorf. These units can reinforce the federal police in any sphere of its missions and support the police forces of the Länder . They are also trained to assist local authorities in case of disasters and uprisings. Under new interior ministry plans, the number of Bereitschaftspolizei companies will increase from 28 to 29 comprising approx. 25 percent of Germany's police support units. The state Bereitschaftspolizei units are part of
153-708: The earliest known appearance of the term "red light district" in print as an 1894 article from the Sandusky Register , a newspaper in Sandusky, Ohio . Author Paul Wellman suggests that this and other terms associated with the American Old West originated in Dodge City, Kansas , home to a well-known prostitution district during the 19th century, which included the Red Light House saloon. This has not been proven, but
170-413: The face and on the skin — made clear they were available as women of pleasure. Sailors, finally getting their relative royal pay, having been at sea for quite some time and looking for relief could so easily spot who would be available. In a later stage, the red lanterns evolved into red lights at brothels. Since this was close to the main harbor, this district became known as the red-light district: One of
187-615: The independent Department of the Alert Units of the Volkspolizei known as the Volkspolizei-Bereitschaften (VPB). It consisted of between 12,000 and 15,000 men (sources disagree) in 21 Volkspolizei Alert Units of battalion strength. There was usually one regiment (more closely to battalion size) per district of East Germany but the key districts of Halle , Leipzig and Magdeburg , with their large working class populations, and Potsdam all had two regiments. The Presidium of
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#1732855266727204-502: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bepo&oldid=765662686 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bereitschaftspolizei The Bereitschaftspolizei (literally 'Readiness Police'/On-Call Police (Reserve); effectively riot police ), abbreviated BePo , are
221-1134: The many terms used for a red-light district in Japanese is akasen ( 赤線 ) , literally meaning "red-line". Japanese police drew a red line on maps to indicate the boundaries of legal red-light districts. In Japanese, the term aosen ( 青線 ) , literally meaning "blue-line", also exists, indicating an illegal district. In the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the term "sporting district" became popular for legal red-light districts. Municipal governments typically defined such districts explicitly to contain and regulate prostitution. In WWI (circa 1915), "Brothels displayed blue lamps if they were for officers and red lamps for other ranks." Some red-light districts (such as De Wallen , Netherlands, or Reeperbahn , Germany) are places that are officially designated by authorities for legal and regulated prostitution. Often, these red-light districts were formed by authorities to help regulate prostitution and other related activities, such that they were confined to
238-470: The performance of the regular tasks of the stations in the same time) to respond as fast as possible. The structure, equipment and training of Bereitschaftpolizei units is standard so that units from different parts of Germany can operate together without any problems. The Bereitschaftspolizei is assigned to barracks and organized into sections, platoons and 120 to 150 person training or rapid reaction companies called Hundertschaften . In most Länder ,
255-621: The subway system (alongside the security service), assist in raids (f.i. in the red-light district or organised crime ), perform traffic control duty and support regular police officers on patrols. Some states (e.g. the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ) have a hybrid system, where units of the Schutzpolizei may act as units of the Bereitschaftspolizei (f.i. for sudden or large riots or terror attacks) - they form so-called Alarm- Hundertschaften with units from all Hamburg police stations (to ensure
272-771: The support and rapid reaction units of Germany 's police forces. They are composed of detachments from the Federal Police and the State Police forces of Germany. The Federal Ministry of the Interior maintains an office of the Bereitschaftspolizei in Berlin which monitors and coordinates the deployment of all Bereitschaftspolizei units in Germany. The ministry also provides standardized weapons, vehicles and other equipment. The Bundespolizei maintains 10 rapid reaction battalions (called Bundespolizeiabteilung or BPA) stationed around
289-494: Was of particular importance to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) as they would be used against the population in the event of social disorders such as the strike of 17 June 1953 in the industrial areas of East Germany. Red-light district Red-light districts are mentioned in the 1882 minutes of a Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting in the United States. The Oxford English Dictionary records
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