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Jez Capey
UK National Policing
Modern Slavery, Organised
Immigration Crime and
Migration related matters
portfolio
Aim:
1. To provide a brief
overview of modern
slavery
1. Highlight some EU
collaboration in tackling
modern slavery
What is Modern Slavery?
•Force, coercion,
deception
•Movement
•Exploitation
•Gain
not people smuggling
Types of exploitation
• Sexual
• Labour (domestic servitude)
• Criminal
• Other:
–Organ Harvesting
–Baby farms
Lambeth, London – Domestic
servitude case
Scale of the problem
• Globally slavery index - over 30
million people in slavery
• I.L.O. $150bn p.a. (labour
exploitation alone)
• 2nd most profitable illicit trade
worldwide
The UK Picture
• Estimated 10,000-13,000 slaves in
the UK
• “The Dark Figure” - likely to be
much higher
• 2,340 potential victims referred into
NRM in 2014
• Sexual Exploitation costs the UK
£890M per year
European Multidisciplinary Platform
Against Criminal Threats
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Facilitation of Illegal Immigration
Trafficking in Human Beings
Counterfeit goods
Excise and MTIC Fraud
Cybercrime
• Synthetic Drugs
• Cocaine and Heroin
• Illicit Firearms
Trafficking
• Organised Property
Crime
THB Group membership
national experts:
26 Participating Member States
11 Associate Partners
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Albania
Australia
Iceland
Switzerland
Serbia
Norway
Europol
Eurojust
Interpol
Frontex – EU External Borders
CEPOL - EU Police Training College
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
2016 Strategic goals
1. Proactively contribute to the operational and
strategic intelligence picture
2. To detect and disrupt high value criminal
targets
3. Improved financial investigation
activity around THB criminality
4. Developing multidisciplinary responses
5. Joint activity emanating from key non-EU
source countries or regions
6. Develop a victim centred
approach
Europol Information sharing
Jan-Sept 2015, 27 countries submitted 2,389
information submissions into Focal Point Phoenix.
THB Type
% of
Trend
reports
received
Sexual Exploitation
82%
4%
Labour Exploitation
8%
2%
Forced (Sham) Marriage
7%
1%
Forced Begging
2%
Forced Criminality
1%
Europol Information analysis
Country of origin for
victims of THB
% of
reports
received
Country of origin for
suspects of THB
% of
reports
received
Romania
35%
Romania
46%
China
22%
Hungary
10%
Hungary
11%
Nigeria
6%
Bulgaria
7%
Bulgaria
6%
Slovakia
5%
Slovakia
6%
Bosnia Herzegovina
4%
China
4%
Czech Republic
3%
Bosnia Herzegovina
3%
Nigeria
2%
Czech Republic
3%
Angola
1%
Albania
2%
Thailand
1%
Poland
2%
Europol Information analysis
• 92% of the victims adults
• 8% were below 18 years of age
• Of the top 13 source countries for victims of
trafficking identified, 7 are EU Member States
• 536 new cases of which 28 are high profile
operations
• High numbers of cases relating to sexual
exploitation, then labour exploitation and then
other forms of THB
• The number of Eurojust facilitated coordination
meetings doubled in 2015 from the previous
year
Projects
Supported by a number of MS from the EMPACT group, with
ISEC funding:
• ETUTU - Targeted at the sexual exploitation of female
victims trafficked from Nigeria into the EU.
– The project continues to make successful headway
particularly in developing the relationship with NAPTIP
(Nigerian national agency for the prohibition of THB -)
and other partners.
• Tackling Chinese OCGs engaged in modern slavery across
the EU
• Cyber Crime
• Asset recovery
• Intelligence
Joint Action Days
EU wide co-ordinated Joint Action Days (JADs) have been
mandated as a key deliverable for each of the 9 agreed high
priority threats (set 2014-2017) by the EU Security Council
(COSI)
As a result JADs have been included as key deliverables in
each of the threat Operational Action Plans (OAPs)
Where possible kindred threats groups will work together to
deliver joint action at agreed times
Defining Joint Action Days
A JAD is when two or more member states engage in
actions against a common aspect of crime
They should:
• Deliver additional and collaborative effort against an
agreed threat area/strategic goal
• Be intelligence led
• Consider use of a range of different approaches & skills
• Feed back National outcomes to the EU
2016 Action Days
• April –Nigerian sex trafficking
• June - Trafficking for Labour
Exploitation
• August - Child exploitation
• October - Trafficking for Sexual
Exploitation
Joint Investigation Teams (JITs)
• Coordinated via Eurojust
• 2 or more member states involved
• Experienced prosecutors from across EU MS
• EU guidance and template for applications
• Generally for Council of Europe threats,
however not exclusively
• Funding available to assist investigations
What is the value of JITs
• Coordinates meetings between member states
• Assist in legislative difficulties between MS
• Arrange translators
• Coordinate EAWs
• Coordinate obtaining of evidence, victim
management, live-links, bad character evidence
etc
Op Svanetia, UK-Slovakian JIT
Operation Birkhill, UK-HU JIT
BBC, 2nd July 2014, Human trafficking gang jailed
Ima
Four men and a woman have been jailed for conspiring to traffic women into the UK for
sexual exploitation.
The gang trafficked more than 100 women into the UK, some of whom were forced into
prostitution and raped. Vishal Chaudhary, 35, described as "the boss" was sentenced to 12
years, Krisztian Abel, 33, to 10 years, Attila Kovacs, 33, was given six years and Kunal
Chaudhary, 32, got five years. Szilvia Abel, 24, was sentenced to three years at Croydon Crown
Court.
Operation Peltier, UK-Hungary JIT
THE GUARDIAN, 16th July 2015
Trafficking gang that sexually exploited hundreds of women jailed
Gang of 11 from Hungary, arrested after victim escaped from east London brothel and alerted
police, handed prison terms ranging from 20 months to 14 years
Jenö Burai, left, and Zsolt Blaga were among 11 members of a gang jailed at Southwark crown court.
The victim, now 26, had been left alone in a brothel in Newham, east London, in October 2013 when
she fled by climbing over the back-garden fence and making her way to Ilford police station.
Operation Peltier, UK-HU JIT
• CPS London Chief Crown Prosecutor Baljit Ubhey OBE, said:
• "This sophisticated and commercial scale operation is one
of the largest ever prosecuted by CPS London. It involved
the trafficking of at least 250 sex workers from Hungary
for the purposes of sexual exploitation to be controlled in
prostitution and 50 brothel addresses in both London and
Peterborough.
• Central to this successful prosecution was strong joint
working between CPS London, the Met police and
Hungarian authorities, foundations for which were put in
place more than two years ago by setting up a Joint
Investigation Team. This enabled us to build the
strongest possible case to put before the court, leading
seven of those involved to plead guilty owing to the
weight of evidence against them.”