Shirley Zheng
Mrs.Vinkovich
English 10
17 Nov 17
Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom
On August 10, 2017 Will Ker, the National Crime Agency’s director, says that about 111 arrests were related to human trafficking with an estimate of 130 victims in the UK. Human Trafficking has been a problem in the United Kingdom that is failing to be treated. Modern slavery and Human trafficking is seen to be much worse than expected in Britain. Human Trafficking is where people are trafficked by the use of force, fraud, or some sort to get some type of work or commercial sex act. People who are trafficked are most likely used for making a profit. People commonly report that traffickers make about $32 Billion dollars a year just by trafficking girls
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The police feel that investigating on human trafficking is time consuming, complex, and lengthy and costly. Because of all of these problems that the police officers feel, they think that it makes them a facile target to eliminate when there is no champion. Police officers should know what constitutes human trafficking, labour exploitation, and forced criminality. The following that was listed in the last sentence was essential knowledge requirements for a police officer. Many front line police have a limited amount of awareness about human trafficking and so as a result, they are unable to respond appropriately …show more content…
If the law enforcement does not improve soon then many people will suffer from being forced into doing things that they may not want to do. There are police working on tracking the traffickers down, but they still struggle to keep up with the speed of traffickers. If people are lucky enough to be rescued from trafficking then they should turn to the police or any of the programs mentioned because the programs really help after they’ve got out of the scary situation. The programs and the police will gladly aid them and take care of their