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Australia and Asian nations target sex slave trade
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2609954.htm
Matt Brown reported this story on Friday, June 26, 2009 18:41:00
Australian police will work withtheir counterparts in China, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia andKorea to target the 'kingpins' of the sex slave trade. It follows athree-day meeting in Sydney.
MARK COLVIN: The fight against sexual slavery is being ramped up a notch.
Policeofficials from the Asia region, who've been meeting in Sydney for thepast few days, have learned that the trade is more organised than firstthought.
And they've decided to form unprecedented joint operations to target modern day slave traders.
National security correspondent, Matt Brown, reports.
MATTBROWN: In a low key meeting, in a luxury Sydney hotel, senior Asianpolice officials from China down to Indonesia and Australia have agreedto escalate their battle against people trafficking.
The victimsare usually sex slaves. You could be forgiven for assuming theseagencies already share intelligence on this subject fairly freely.
Butthat's easier said than done. And Federal Police Commander RamziJabbour says the Sydney meeting has resolved to launch new jointinvestigations to get at the people running the sex slave trade.
RAMZIJABBOUR: By bringing together and sharing intelligence in relation toall our holdings, it will certainly focus our efforts on the kingpins.
MATTBROWN: The issue of whether this trade's being run by organised crimehas in the past been a bone of contention. But Ramzi Jabbour saysfollowing the Sydney meeting, there's less and less doubt.
RAMZIJABBOUR: It's become quite evident to us that we are dealing withorganised criminality in sending people to Australia for traffickingpurposes.
MATT BROWN: The victims of sexual slavery arerelatively easy to see: they are usually women from South East Asia,and they're caught up in raids by police and immigration officialsoften enough.
But Ramzi Jabbour and his counterparts fromcountries like Malaysia and Thailand are hoping new layers of the tradewill now be revealed.
RAMZI JABBOUR: By bringing together allthe intelligence into a central point, we're able to potentiallyidentify organisers or facilitators that are common amongst a varietyof trafficking victims.
If we were working in isolation; theMalays working on their own, the Thais working on their own; they maynever actually see the fact that one or two organisers are actuallybehind these criminal syndicates.
MATT BROWN: The AFP is alsogoing to take on a unique role. Its officers, posted throughout Asia,are about to become liaison officers for their neighbours - helpingother Asian police from different countries work with each other.
RAMZIJABBOUR: For example, Royal Malaysian Police could make an approach tothe AFP liaison officer in Kuala Lumpur, provide them with a request,we could provide that request to the Royal Thai Police through ourliaison officer in Bangkok, and we could get quite a timely responseand feed that back to the Malaysian police.
MATT BROWN: So what does that mean for an investigation for example?
RAMZIJABBOUR: Well, it means that in the case of victims we're getting verytimely responses. We're able to verify their situation and we're ableto potentially identify other victims at risk in a much more timelyfashion.
MATT BROWN: Several non-government organisations areworking on campaigns funded by the Federal Government to raiseawareness of people trafficking in Australia.
The police have launched more than 270 investigations since 2004 and 90 per cent of them have been about sexual slavery.
But ten per cent have focussed on the plight of people being dreadfully exploited in other industries.
JENNIFERBURN: There have been a number of cases where people have beenindentified in industries such as agriculture or construction.
JenniferBurn, the director of the Anti-Slavery Project at the University ofTechnology in Sydney, says much more needs to be discovered about thisarea of people trafficking, and the new international effort might help.
JENNIFERBURN: What we would like to see is a greater focus on all forms oftrafficking and slavery and in particular look at the patterns ofslavery into industries which as yet haven't really been identified as�for their potential to have exploited labour forces working in them.
MARK COLVIN: Associate Professor Jennifer Burn, director of the Anti-Slavery Project, ending that report from Matt Brown. |
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