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Introduction of Critical Evaluation of the Treatment of Trafficked
Critical Evaluation of the Treatment of Trafficked, The assignment discusses sex trafficking within the UK and critically evaluates how victims of sex trafficking are treated after their detection. With regards to this, the discussion below includes the responses of police forces and their role in getting the trafficked persons their rights. Also, the discussion sheds light on the responses of NGOs and criminal justice system towards the issue and upon their role in combatting it. Besides that, the role of National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is briefly stated including its implications to provide the right treatment to the victims of sex trafficking. Challenges and perspective of another feminist organization regarding sex trafficking have been discussed.
Sex Trafficking and Victimization of Trafficked Persons in the UK
Despite a proper legislation formed against sex trafficking in Britain, sex trafficking still remains to be a major issue, an issue that has been terrorizing the citizens and creating chaos for ages. Sex trafficking is just another word for sexual exploitation of especially females and children, where the number of children being the victims of sex trafficking is rapidly increasing. In the domain of sex trafficking, children are more victimized as compared to female.
However, female sex trafficking is a highly pressing concern as well. According to an observation, the reason why sex trafficking remains to be a major cultural issue, even after so many legislations formed is the denial of people. Half of the citizens don not bother about working against the issue of sex trafficking due to lack of emotional attachment, while others deny agreeing that an issue like this is highly damaging to the British society (Munro, 2005). According to a recent research on human trafficking victims in the UK, it is stated that the number is increasing by 40% annually. According to the new and official figures, more than 3,200 immigrants from over 102 countries, one-third child, and over half women have been deemed as sex trafficking victims (Brayley and Cockbain, 2014).
In the UK, especially immigrants as mentioned above and people from countries like Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia are fooled by being promised high-paying jobs and first-rate quality accommodation; however, these people end up being sexually exploited. Particularly in recent times, women and young girls have been forced to go into prostitutions, which is the most common form of human rights violations (Meshkovska, et al. 2015). Moreover, the different forms of victimization to the women and children include the use of force to lead the individual into prostitution and sex trading, carrying out fraud or pressuring a victim who is unwilling of being transported into sexual exploitation. It is very obvious now that most of the sex traffickers are forced to enter the world of insanity and crime. Also, why prostitution is legal in the UK is a long debate, but according to a point of view, making prostitution legal is basically a way of encouraging perpetrators to force women to use their body for providing sexual services (Williams and Burke, 2013).
Response of Police towards the victims of Sex Trafficking
The police play an important role in identifying potential sex trafficking victims. UK police have overall played a huge role in getting the sex trafficked persons their right. As stated in the official document of UK government about sex trafficking, in 2012 more than 39 police forces areas in England and Wales identified human trafficking victims. However, often the detection of the trafficked victims is followed by the treatment of these as criminals of immigration crime, prostitution or party to other criminal activities.
The Human Trafficking Centre of UK, the one based in SOCA provides strategic advice and assistance to the UK police forces who deal with the cases related to the human trafficking, particularly sex trafficking. In this regards, the senior police officers in the UK are made responsible for sex trafficking in each and every forces area.
Moreover, they are responsible for providing focus on every activity related to human trafficking and helping the NGOs as well as other entities to raise awareness regarding the issue (Weitzer, 2014). Annison (2013) reported that in the UK is the duty to investigate the offenses of trafficking under Article 4 of the ECHR, the article clearly states that investing all forms of trafficking whether related to children or adults is obligatory by the UK police. In contrast, Brayley, Cockbain, and Laycock (2011) stated that in most of the cases it becomes highly difficult for the locals to engage the police in the trafficking cases.
In the same manner, Weitzer (2011) added that in most of the sex trafficking cases exploitation has remained inconsistent as it depends on the police officer investigating the case. Segrave, Milivojevic, and Pickering (2012) highlighted that the practice of reporting sex or any other form of trafficking is that relevant information shall be shared with the police on the immediate basis, however, significant lacking has been found in information sharing between different agencies, which creates the limitation for the police investigation. The lack of information sharing is due to distrust between the agencies and the police…
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