Metropolitan Police may shut down human trafficking unit

The Metropolitan Police may shut its specialist unit to tackle human trafficking because of lack of funding. You might remember this is the second time that the unit has been threatened with closure due to funding issues; last time, it was given a reprieve.

It sounds very much like Kate Allen from Amnesty is right when she speculates this could lead to trafficking people into forced labour and domestic servitude risks being forgotten, and even when it comes to trafficking for sexual exploitation “there’s a danger that transferring responsibility for combating trafficking to other police teams will mean that hard-earnt expertise will be lost within the police”.