More Police Needed To Fight Trafficking in UK

According to think tank Centre for Social Justice, trafficking gangs in the United Kingdom far outnumber the police personnel. They are also extremely up to the mark in the degree of sophistication used.

More border police are needed to tackle these highly sophisticated gangs that are operating in sheer disregard of the legalities involved. The gangs operate in an opportunity-infested scenario due to the European Union's open borders policy.

Former Home Office adviser and author of the Centre for Social Justice report Fiona Cunningham has disclosed that organised criminality, which lay behind this novel method of enslaving people, apparently reached epidemic proportions. "Organised crime groups find the trafficking of victims to be a highly lucrative and accessible crime to pursue, and as such have become highly sophisticated in developing illegal business models," she told BBC news.

Hundreds of the villagers from Slovakia migrate to Britain in the hope of finding jobs. In fact, since the latter country opened its borders to E.U. about a decade back, several hundred people moved to the U.K. from Pavlovce and Uhom, located in eastern Slovakia.

The culprits operate overtly by bringing people to Britain following which their documents are taken. Not only this, they have the cheek to claim child benefit for kids who are not their own and also the ones that don’t even exist in the first place.

The lure of employment attracts the trusting victims to go to U.K. They are exploited to the hilt there and have to suffer ample amounts of physical torture too. "Every day they beat me, broke my leg, my ribs, my nose. All the money went to them, nothing for me," a man who did not want to be identified, said.

Under Operation Rehoboam, which spread across the entire country, the National Crime Agency of the U.K. arrested three people a couple of days back. They were detained based on suspicion of human trafficking. This was made possible after a long drawn probe that spanned through one and a half years.

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