SCD 9 Human Exploitation and Organised Crime OCU Inspector Jon Birch 2 nd July 2010.
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SCD 9SCD 9
Human Exploitation andHuman Exploitation andOrganised Crime OCUOrganised Crime OCU
Inspector Jon BirchInspector Jon Birch
22ndnd July 2010 July 2010
Background to SCD9Trafficking and Immigration review late 2009
Identified duplication of effort between MPS teams
Human Trafficking Team funding due to end
No single point of contact for trafficking
Need to have centre of excellence
Need to have strong and clear links with partners
Need to continue support for other areas of exploitation
Joined Specialist Crime Directorate 1st April 2010
Single point of contact for trafficking from that date
Partnership contacts• Barnardos
• NSPCC
• Children's Society
• ECPAT
• Stop The Traffik
• Croydon Community Against Trafficking
• London Councils
• CEOP – Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre
• Refugee Council
and many more….
Trafficking and Prostitution UnitTwo proactive teams investigating human
trafficking and organised criminal networks controlling prostitution
Brothels team responsible for intelligence gathering in off-street premises
Olympic boroughs team working with five footprint boroughs as 2012 approaches
Crime squad assisting borough officers with street prostitution, kerb crawling and carding
Trafficking and Prostitution Unit
Operational priorities:
• Children
• Human trafficking
• Violence and coercion
• Organised criminal networks
Interventions
• Intelligence gathering visits to brothels across London
• Proactive operations
• Priority given to operations involving children
• Intelligence - led street sweeps
• Fast - time visits to brothels where children are suspected
• Publicity around child sexual exploitation
A Child’s experience
• Victim 16 years old, befriended by male in Lithuania
• Deceived into believing male is boyfriend who pays for trip to UK for a ‘weekend break’
• On arrival in UK he leaves for a meeting and hands victim to ‘friends’ to 'look after her’
• Boyfriend never seen again
A Child’s experience
• Taken to Sheffield with males
• Threats made to her and her family if she didn’t provide sexual services for money
• Moved from Sheffield and sold to Albanian males in London
• Placed into brothel in London
Operational Start Point
• Police contacted by BBC following concerns by mother
who had reported daughter missing in Lithuania
• Mother has received money transfer from Hounslow in London
• Police conduct immediate enquiries and rescue victim from brothel in Hounslow
Operational Start Point
• Officers return victim to NGO in Lithuania for safety and conduct full debrief of victim
• Operation begins to identify traffickers and controllers involved
• Identifies series of brothels in London linked to traffickers of victim
Investigation Established:
Series of brothels identified in Hounslow
5 Albanians identified running the criminal network.
15 – 20 women working in the premises.
Each earning between £300 - £700 a day for traffickers.
Arrests
21 victims identified and rescued.
Other victims identified through debriefs
£35,000 cash found in safe house.
Money transfers to foreign bank accounts identified and seized.
Flamur DeMarku
18yrs
imprisonment
Agron DeMarku
Izzet Fejzullahu 18yrs imprisonment
14 yrs
imprisonment
Bedri DeMarku
8 yrs Xhevair DeMarku
imprisonment 5 yrs imprisonment
Child trafficking case study 1• Identified criminal network recruiting children
from Africa
• Forced into prostitution and worked across the EU
• UK identified as a trafficking staging post
• Victim identified in prison for document offences. Attended crown court with agency and assisted victim into accommodation and negotiated withdrawal of document offence charges
• Arrests and charges anticipated shortly
Child trafficking case study 2
• Identified criminal network within the UK
• Children trafficked both within the UK and from outside
• Very large sums of money involved
• Trial later this year
Child trafficking case study 3
• Victim brought to UK from Africa
• 'Employed' as domestic servant
• Denied access to passport
• Sleeping on mat on the floor
• Not allowed to leave house unless escorted
• Looking after children, cooking and cleaning
• Charges pending
Abusive and Extreme Images UnitProactive team investigating the production and
distribution of obscene material, including indecent images of children
Computer Crime Unit investigating those who share indecent images of children via the internet.
Operation CaimanOver 250 suspects identified since Jan 2007,
including:
• London 2008 - arrest for 500,000 indecent images, largest collection found by to date.
• London – 2009 - arrest for possessing indecent images. Had also sexually assaulted a 13 year old neighbour and had set up a video camera to covertly film people using his toilet.
AnyQuestions?