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02-Apr-06 | Raped, beaten and helpless: UK's sex slaves | Observer |
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03-Apr-06 | Purge on asylum seekers leaves violent criminals on streets, says MP |
Telegraph Stewart Payne |
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Operation Falcon According to this article: Since May 2005, Officers have arrested more than 80 suspected illegal immigrants who were involved in drugs and prostitution. |
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04-Apr-06 | UK 'FBI' crime unit launched | Herald Sun |
| Serious Organised Crime Agency launched. Modeled on US FBI. Aim tackling drug traffickers, people smugglers, global pedophile networks & sophisticated fraudsters. It will also focus on those criminals involved in trafficking women, often from eastern Europe, into Britain and forcing them to work as prostitutes. | |||
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ORIGINAL: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18692391^23109,00.html WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GMFtI0O9 |
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04-Apr-06 | 'Evil' sex-trafficking couple stripped of £40,000 |
24 Dash Ian Morgan |
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London According to this article: Moldovans: Gavril and Tamara Dulghieru ordered to hand over a total of £42,370 |
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ORIGINAL: http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?navID=7&newsID=4461 WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkAc |
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05-Apr-06 | Tackling Human Trafficking - Consultation on Proposals for a UK Action Plan (PDF) | UK Home Office |
| "Human trafficking is a modern day form of slavery which causes great harm to both individuals who are trafficked and to our society and economy as a whole. Tackling human trafficking is a key priority for the UK Government's organised crime strategy. The Government is committed to drawing up a national action plan aimed at combating and preventing human trafficking, as recommended by international organisations such as the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The purpose of this consultation is to seek views on the proposed areas for action and specific initiatives which are proposed as well as an opportunity to suggest other areas where a UK strategy should focus." | |||
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07-Apr-06 | £2.4 million to help UK human sex trafficking victims |
24 Dash Ian Morgan |
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According to this article: Home Office Minister Paul Goggins announcement re: £2.4 million in government funding to help set up a 24-hour national outreach service for the UK victims of human sex trafficking through the POPPY scheme (Eaves Housing for Women.) Funding will be provided over the next two years: team of 4 outreach workers, continued provision of *25* beds in safe house, 10 new "step-down" places, resource pack (info and advice for victims), other support projects and law enforcement personnel. |
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ORIGINAL: http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?navID=7&newsID=4614 WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkAp |
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07-Apr-06 | UK Government: First outreach service for victims of trafficking | M2 Communications |
| Home Office Minister Paul Goggins announcement re: 24 hour outreach service that will be set up through the Poppy scheme. See above. Further info regarding Operation Pentameter (launched Feb 21), a national operation looking at the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. Resulted to date in 14 women being rescued and 51 alleged traffickers arrested. | |||
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ORIGINAL: http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=195246&NewsAreaID=2 WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkB1 |
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10-Apr-06 | Cash to help sex trafficking victims |
Community Newswire Rosamond Hutt |
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London According to this article: Eaves Housing for Women has been awarded £2.4m in Government funding over two years for the Poppy Project which provides help to women who have been trafficked into the UK and forced to work in the sex industry. Crisis accommodation for 25 women, additional 10 places for victims needing less intensive protection and support. Over 100 sex trafficking victims helped by Poppy Project to date. Over half women were from Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States and the remainder came from Nigeria; Thailand; Malaysia; Uganda; Vietnam; China; and Mongolia. |
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ORIGINAL: http://www.communitynewswire.press.net/article.jsp?id=299164 WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkBB |
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14-Apr-06 | First proof of sex-trafficking in Glasgow sauna industry | Evening Times |
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Glasgow Aquarius sauna According to this article: At special meeting of Glasgow licensing committee on April 13, police revealed that they have solid evidence of sex trafficking in Glasgow's sex industry. It is believed that girls from at least 22 countries are working as prostitutes in Glasgow, many from eastern Europe and Asia. Aquarius sauna lost it's public entertainment licence after operating as a brothel controlled by George Colahan (jailed in March for 9 months for running a brothel and living off immoral earnings.) Chinese businessman "Tony Lee" is co-owner of Aquarius sauna. In 2002, a raid on a Glasgow brothel found a number of foreign women but no proof of trafficking. Since then at least a dozen trafficked women have come to the attention of staff working with prostitutes. |
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ORIGINAL: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5051058.html WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkBK |
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20-Apr-06 | Scotland Yard agents dispatched in Albania | Makfax |
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According to this article: Scotland Yard agents are in Albania to check bank accounts of Albanian migrants in UK allegedly involved in illegal drugs trade and prostitution rings |
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20-Apr-06 | Trafficking probe leads to raids | BBC News |
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Dundee According to this article: Three Brazilian women were detained in connection with Operation Pentameter (operation combating sex trafficking). Although no evidence was found of sex trafficking, the women were found to be living illegally in the UK. |
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ORIGINAL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/4925720.stm WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkBT |
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20-Apr-06 | Operation Pentameter | Tayside Police |
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According to this article: Using information from local communities to direct the operation, Tayside Police have searched a number of properties in Dundee as part of Operation Pentameter. Although no signs of women having been trafficked were uncovered, intelligence confirming prostitution activity was found. Three Brazilian women were arrested in connection with immigration offences and £30,000 in cash was recovered in one flat in Dundee. Detective Chief Superintendent Colin McCashey is the Head of Tayside Police’s Criminal Investigation Department. |
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ORIGINAL: http://www.tayside.police.uk/newsitem.php?id=453 WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GLxQYkBc |
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21-Apr-06 | Three women are arrested during sex traffickers hunt |
The Herald Graeme Smith |
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Operation Pentameter Dundee (As above.) According to this article: Three Brazilian women were arrested and £30,000 recovered from a flat in Dundee which was raided as part of an operation to combat sex trafficking. A number of other people also arrested during raids. Over 60 suspected sex traffickers arrested to date as part of Operation Pentameter. In raids on brothels in England and Wales, 14 sex trafficking victims including 15 year old girl were freed. Most traffickers have been eastern Europeans but two alleged British traffickers arrested in south Wales. |
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ORIGINAL: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/60502.html WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1149293610873601 |
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23-Apr-06 | London's criminal families replaced by ethnic gangs |
Telegraph Ben Leapman |
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London According to this article: Police intelligence report concludes that in London there are 180 crime gangs speaking 24 languages - international networks involved in murders, drug dealing, prostitution and people trafficking *as the opportunities arise*. |
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24-Apr-06 | Arrests at sex trafficking raids | BBC News |
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North Wales According to this article: Three women rescued and five people arrested. Locations include: Anglesey, Conwy and Denbighshire. Women were from China, Malaysia and Namibia and have been taken to a safe place. Also see: North Wales Police press release |
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ORIGINAL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4941960.stm WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1149293610873622 |
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25-Apr-06 | London's ethnic gangs 'running out of control' | 24dash |
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London According to this article: Police warned that gangs from London's ethnic minority communities are running "out of control" and are involved in organised crime including people-trafficking and fake passports. |
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25-Apr-06 | Traffickers have created '21st Century slave trade' | Cambridge News |
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Operation Maxim According to this article: Police chiefs say that criminal gangs are out of control. They are trading in fake passports and exploiting illegal immigration. Counterfeit passport and ID paper trading is occurring on an uncontrollable scale, according to Superintendent Bob Murrill. Police admit that neither they nor the Home Office know the scale of people trafficking - often of women into prostitution. |
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ORIGINAL: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/city/2006/04/25/d73cca9b-d004-49d7-b5ea-0e42842e7613.lpf WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1149293610873648 |
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25-Apr-06 | 'Porn site' film urges men to report sex trafficking | Guardian |
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Crimestoppers freesextraffic.co.uk According to this article: An internet film that aims to persuade men who visit prostitutes to pass information on sex trafficking to the authorities has been launched by Crimestoppers. It is designed to look like a porn site. |
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ORIGINAL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1761177,00.html WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/5GMEkklR0 |
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25-Apr-06 | UN urges Balkan nations to fight human trafficking | DTT-NET.COM |
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UN report on human trafficking According to this article: Trafficked victims from countries in Central and South Eastern Europe are reported to be trafficked mainly to EU Western countries: Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Austria, France and Spain. According to the report “virtually every country in the world is affected by the crime of human trafficking in millions of people for sexual exploitation or forced labour”. “Governments must take serious steps to eliminate a scourge whose main victims are women and children." |
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25-Apr-06 | City sex traffickers jailed |
Birmingham Post Emma Pinch |
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Birmingham Garden of Eden Massage Parlour in Yardley (and others) According to this article: Sex Traffickers: Albanian Lorenc Goduni and Lithuanian Simona Kazakaite. Goduni sentenced to 7 years for trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation. Kazakaite sentenced to 4 years for conspiracy to control prostitution for gain and conspiracy to cause or incite prostitution. It was West Midlands' first successful human trafficking prosecution. The 18 year old Lithuanian victim was lured to the UK in an internet chatroom and then forced to work in Birmingham brothels. Detective Constable Tom Kavanagh said that human trafficking was "massively widespread" in Britain's cities. |
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ORIGINAL: http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=16989581&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=city-sex-traffickers-jailed-name_page.html WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1149293610873666 |
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25-Apr-06 | South Yorkshire Police - Press Release | South Yorkshire Police |
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Operation Pentameter According to this article: Men who use prostitutes are a vital link in the sex trafficking chain
The Home Office consultation document on prostitution, Paying the Price quotes research suggesting that the average man who pays for sex as, "a man of around 30 years of age, married, in full time employment, and with no criminal convictions." It also quotes the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (2001) which found 4.3% of UK men aged 16-44 reported having paid for sex in the past 5 years. |
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26-Apr-06 | UK anti-human trafficking campaign | Polskie Radio |
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According to this article: British authorities argue that Poland’s accession to the EU has made it that much easier for traffickers to recruit their victims. |
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26-Apr-06 | UK part of modern day slave trade, say police |
ABC Rafael Epstein |
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Operation Maxim According to senior Scotland Yard detectives, sex trafficking in the UK has reached unprecedented proportions. |
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ORIGINAL: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1623927.htm WEBCITE archive: http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1149293610873696 |
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29-Apr-06 | Edinburgh's sex industry |
Scotsman Aura Sabadus |
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Operation Pentameter Dundee, Glasgow and Perth According to this article: Three Eastern European sex trafficking victims held captive by Scottish brothel owners have been freed. They had been purchased for £7,000 each, raped, beaten, and had their families threatened. 11 people were arrested. Up to 6,000 women who arrived in Scotland from Asia, South America and Eastern Europe in recent years work as escorts or sell their bodies in off-street prostitution premises. The annual turnover of a brothel could be as much as £1 million. Operation Pentameter resulted in 129 arrests and 46 women taken from 350 premises. |
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