TAKE OFF THE BLINDFOLD and put a stop to modern day slavery! Dr Mike Emberson CEO Migrant Help

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

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

Work to Date ● Numbers by gender (484 since 4 June 2008)

● Type of Exploitation

● Nationalities Top Ten

● Nationalities other

Outcomes

Home Nations

Types of Help ● Support during Reflection Periods ● Support to Law Enforcement Operations ● International Work ● Awareness Raising

Supporting Op Mockday in Glasgow

Op Mockday Accommodation

Training in Romania

Launch of NI Services

Op Cotswold Peterborough Recovering Victim’s Property

Staff team Op Component

Practitioner’s Training Day

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

Op Panreth - Hertfordshire not the stolen dogs!

Challenges ● Assessing the size, scope & extent of the problem ● Identifying victims ● Getting victims to cooperate ● Securing convictions ● Resources!

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

For further advice or to discuss future operations please contact Ms Charlotte Kirkwood Trafficking Services Coordinator Migrant Help