Wellington, New Zealand (AHN)-A New Zealand policewoman has been censured for moonlighting as a prostitute, but is being allowed to keep her day job after giving up the controversial night duties.

While prostitution is legal in New Zealand and police are allowed to take approved second jobs, a top officer says sex work and police work don't mix.

A female police officer who was discovered last year to have been a prostitute for a short time has gotten off with a warning, according to New Zealand police authorities.

The officer, who is not identified, is stationed in Auckland, the biggest city in New Zealand.

Sex workers in Vegas are advocating respect for their profession in Sin City. Prostitutes demonstrated on the steps of the courthouse in downtown Las Vegas. Hookers and strippers demanded more legal protection in an effort to decriminalize the "world's oldest profession."

Thirty-six-year-old ex-Army Reservist, Starchild, stood in solidarity with the rallying sex workers in Las Vegas. He emphatically claimed his seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Strippers and prostitutes are demonstrating for more legal protection and the decriminalization of prostitution. The protest is being held in downtown Las Vegas on the steps of the city's courthouse.

Sex industry workers say all too often, workers claims of rape and violence are ignored by authorities and that anti-human trafficking laws are sometimes unfairly used against sex industry workers.

An 80-year-old man on Wednesday admitted possessing drugs and trading them for sex. The man admitted that he sold crack cocaine from his house and gave some of the drugs to prostitutes in exchange for sex.

In front of a jury, Felix Cocco, of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia.