Operational Perspective on trafficking in Women and Children in the United Kingdom


Issues if interest
This chapter outlines the United Kingdom’s operational approach to tackling human trafficking.

Organized immigration crime is a big business, and though it has brought new criminal groups to the forefront, although there are gangs who offer and operate an end-to-end service, with increasing knowledge reveals many loose alliances providing specialist services to move the human cargo up the chain.

Although human trafficking for sexual exploitation may be considered the most significant current threat to the United Kingdom, trafficking for labor exploitation and other forms of abuse cannot be overlooked

It has been recognized that human trafficking is not wholly an immigration offense.

Trafficker
Human Smuggler
More heinous crime than smuggling,


They are serious criminals, motivated by greed, and seek to use the humanitarian issues surrounding migration as a veil for their criminal behavior.

Recruitment of the trafficked persons: is carried out by force, then

Example, as a prostitute without any control over their earnings or workload
Smuggling more on providing a form of legal service.

The relationship between a smuggler
and a smuggled migrant might ends once the person has reached his or her destination country.

But it may not if the migrant not paid in full, in advance, the smuggler will invariably continue to exert control until the balance is paid.

‘In such circumstances, does the smuggler become a trafficker and the migrant a victim of trafficking?’










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