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TAKE OFF THE BLINDFOLD and put a stop to modern day slavery! Dr Mike Emberson CEO Migrant Help
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Who Are Migrant Help ● A charity established in 1963 by Helen Ellis MBE to help foreign nationals in distress in the UK ● Ports & docks & au pairs! ● A project based organisation emerges – Ugandan Asians, Bosnian evacuations and an Ostend office ● The Asylum Years ● Where we are now – human trafficking
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Asylum Seekers (London, Kent and Sussex) Refugees (London, Kent & Sussex, currently bidding for a National contract) Foreign National Prisoners (Kent and Essex) Migrants (Kent & capacity building in South East) Non-EU Migrant Workers (Suffolk) An Interpretation Service (200 interpreters, 120 languages, telephone & face to face across the UK) Human Trafficking (Support services across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) What We Do
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Work to Date ● Numbers by gender (484 since 4 June 2008)
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● Type of Exploitation
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● Nationalities Top Ten
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● Nationalities other
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Outcomes
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Home Nations
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Types of Help ● Support during Reflection Periods ● Support to Law Enforcement Operations ● International Work ● Awareness Raising
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Supporting Op Mockday in Glasgow
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Op Mockday Accommodation
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Training in Romania
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Launch of NI Services
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Op Cotswold Peterborough Recovering Victim’s Property
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Staff team Op Component
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Practitioner’s Training Day
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Labour & Domestic Servitude Domestic Servitude – personal servants and slaves ● Labour- agriculture, fisheries, meat processing factories, garment industry, packaging factories, retail, catering, car washes, construction industry ● Marijuana cultivation/security Organised petty crime – pirate CD/DVDS, shoplifting, mobile phone theft, pick pocketing, dog stealing Street Scene’ crime – begging, newspaper & Big Issue sales, ‘scouting’, squeegee work Identity theft - Benefit and tax credit fraud Money laundering – multiple bank accounts Sham marriages - bride slavery
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Op Panreth - Hertfordshire not the stolen dogs!
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Challenges ● Assessing the size, scope & extent of the problem ● Identifying victims ● Getting victims to cooperate ● Securing convictions ● Resources!
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How Can You Help? Keep your eyes open & report using confidential numbers if necessary Form Community Action Teams – work with PSNI Political campaigning Raise awareness raising Targeted purchases & boycotts Social Network sites Donate! Prayer
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For further advice or to discuss future operations please contact Ms Charlotte Kirkwood 07789171963 charlotte.kirkwood@migranthelpline.org Trafficking Services Coordinator Migrant Help
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