 Kerb crawling is illegal in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Korea and India.Police may also collect licence-plate numbers of vehicles that appear to be kerb crawling and may contact their registered owners.Following the recommendations of the 1984 Criminal Law Revision Committee report "Prostitution on the Street", the United Kingdom's Sexual Offences Act 1985 introduced an offence of kerb crawling to persistently solicit women for the purposes of prostitution.