Joint-Agency Task ForceTargeting Organised Immigration Crime and Human Trafficking in London

Sally JeffreySally JeffreyDetective Inspector Human Trafficking TeamEconomic & Specialist Crime UnitMetropolitan Police Service

Operation MAXIMOperation MAXIM

Metropolitan Police Area

Human Trafficking TeamTerms of Reference

• Prioritise those cases linked to

Organised Criminal Networks.

• 24 hour advice to BOCU’s

• Liaison with NGO’s, expert CPS,

Foreign Law Enforcement Agencies

• Awareness raising & partnership

working

Human Trafficking TeamTerms of Reference

• Victim focussed investigations

• Prosecution/disruption tactics/

prevention strategies

• Financial Investigations

Definition of TraffickingPalermo Protocol

• Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons

• The threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception or abuse of power

• For the purpose of exploitation

• Sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or servitude or the removal of organs

Smuggling

• Illegal entry of a person

• Relationship ends at the border

• Transaction is made for the smuggling service

• Person is free to leave

UKPentameter 2 Objectives

• To rescue victims (male, female and children) of human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and to make the United Kingdom a hostile environment for human trafficking.

• To assess the extent of the threat from human trafficking for the purposes of sexual and labour exploitation in the United Kingdom.

• To provide the basis for intelligence led operational activity against the trafficking of human beings (male, female and children) throughout the United Kingdom.

•Support

•Legislation

•Who else deals?

A Dedicated Unit - Positives

• Help develop a corporate response

• Central point of contact – NGO’s - other

LEA’s -Intelligence

• Victim centred approach

• Raise profile of THB

• Focused engagement on effected

communities

Gordon ValentineGordon ValentineDetective InspectorDetective Inspector

Child Abuse Investigation Child Abuse Investigation CommandCommand

Metropolitan Police ServiceMetropolitan Police Service

The Paladin Team.The Paladin Team.

Paladin aim

• Using the strengths and legislative powers of key agencies to create a team/system that safeguards children encountered at and/or travelling through London’s ports against abuse and exploitation wherever that abuse or exploitation might take place.

CEOP recommendations

• Strategic threat assessment

• LSCB protocols• Child trafficking

desk• Biometrics

• Awareness training

• Consistent definition

• Age assessment• Children involved

criminal activity

HELP

• Working together

• NSPCC helpline

• Paladin

• Protocols (Pentameter)

Contacts• Detective Inspector Sally Jeffrey

• Phone no: 02072306944

• Email:Maxim@met.pnn.police.uk

• Detective Inspector Gordon Valentine

• Phone no: 07747055938

Any questions?