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Monitoring of labour sectors
This activity needs to be targeted on both the sex
and labour industries and requires a multi-agency approach to optimise
the return on the investment of effort and resources. The key features
of the response are:
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monitoring across multi-disciplinary lines – close co-operation
between law enforcement, immigration, trade unions, employment,
social services and child welfare agencies and non-governmental
organisations;
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development of intelligence sources within the high risk communities
into which victims (particularly child victims) may disappear;
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proactive intelligence monitoring of the sex industry and
development of intelligence sources within this industry;
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pro-active monitoring of the high risk labour sectors, (such as
restaurants, sweatshop industries, domestic service, agriculture and
construction which are likely to vary by geographical area), and
development of intelligence sources within these labour markets;
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Working with local community groups to establish trust and
co-operation to identify and counter trafficking.
Areas with an
acknowledged problem with a local off-street sex industry clearly need
to specifically address the issues of trafficking in their area. Other
areas that think that they do not have any problem with off-street
prostitution should not assume that they are free from trafficking. In
fact it has been argued that these are precisely the areas that need
to be more concerned as trafficking is likely to thrive where it is
not appreciated as a problem.
The inescapable commercial need for traffickers to
‘market’ the availability of trafficked women in the sex industry
marketplace means that law enforcement officers should be able to
detect where victims may be located. Additional intelligence sources
include health agencies, ‘clients’ and other workers involved with the
sex industry (e.g. maids).
Labour exploitation is difficult to monitor because
of the diffuse types of such exploitation and of the fact that the
marketing imperative inherent to prostitution exploitation does not
apply to this category. However, a programme of intelligence led
visits to high-risk venues can be productive. Trade unions, labour
organisations, migrant support groups and health & safety officials
may be able to advise with this.
One of the hardest forms of exploitation to detect
is that of domestic service within a family setting. There are two
possible ways to address this; the use of intelligence sources within
the vulnerable communities who may pick up indicators of this type of
activity and the use of awareness raising campaigns that specifically
draw attention to the presence of trafficking. Experience shows that
the general public responds well to appeals particularly for help
involving exploited children.
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