Refugee likely to be sold as sex slaves in apartments in Malmo. But the police do not investigate crimes. Case after case is closed. “We do not have the ability to do our job,” said the police chief in charge.
the suspected cases pile up at Lisa Green, the county administrative coordinator against human trafficking. None of the 32 cases led to prosecution.
– this happens all the time. The real figure is large and I only get to hear about a fraction, said Lisa Green, coordinator against trafficking in Scania, which works on behalf of both the city of Malmö and Stockholm County Administrative Board.
they have been running around in the car to different customers and forced sex in rooms or in rooms anywhere in Malmo.
in her computer are the many unresolved cases involving suspected trafficking in Skåne . Since 2014, she has received more than 100 cases, of which over 40 involving children. Most of them are suspected in different ways have been used for sexual purposes.
In a number of cases, staff have seen how children become downloaded at places on the evenings of adults. Staff have suspected that they have been sold in prostitution.
– they have traveled around the car to different customers and forced sex in rooms or in rooms anywhere in Malmo. In any case, even in black clubs in central Malmo, says Lisa Green.
In other cases, children have been transferred to Sweden and then become locked apartments and sold as sex slaves.
children can say:” I have been locked in a high-rise building in Malmo with red paint. ” But when we check so maybe there is a red high-rise buildings in the area. It is difficult when there is something going on.
Often the alarms of asylum places that have served as transit places where children lived for a limited time.
Several times she reported the events to the police. But the police do not investigate crimes. Not a single case has been prosecuted.
– The children have probably been exposed, but my job is to prioritize, says Leif Fransson deputy head of the border police until January this year, was responsible for matters related to human trafficking in South region.
– we have decided that we are only dealing with one case at a time. They are complicated and take a lot of time, he said.
How many cases were investigating you in 2015?
– I’m not sure, but I think it was about one or two last year. We are forced to prioritize hard if we are to go in goal, says Leif Fransson.
None of the two cases that police were investigating in 2015 was about children. The cases coordinator Lisa Green reports have been prioritized away. According to the border police investigators receive too little information to be able to go on.
– They can say: “I have been locked in a high-rise building in Malmo with red paint.” But when we check so maybe there is a red high-rise buildings in the area. It is difficult when there is something to go on, says Leif Fransson.
But Lisa Green pile of unresolved issues, there are cases where there has been concrete data. One of them is about four refugee boys from Uganda.
The boys have pointed out and named a man they say has been exploited them sexually and stolen their identity documents. The staff at the accommodation believe that the abuse is organized.
Lisa Green’s notes show that the border police initially promises that they will hold hearings with the boys, but announces to the end that you do not have time, then they work with another case.
Several times the police have asked the city of Malmö coordinator to hold hearings with the children to produce more information. This is also confirmed by Leif Fransson, deputy head of the border police.
But Lisa Green at Malmö think it is a dangerous road to go where the municipal social workers to do police work.
– what is our experience to keep the police for questioning children about sexual abuse, she wonders.
Lisa Green, social Services in Malmö.
Since 2014, Lisa Green notified about 40 cases to the police where children are suspected to have been trafficked. Most of the cases have occurred in Malmo.
But the reports are not registered by the police.
According to the National Crime Prevention Council, well, the police between the years 2012 to 2015 have not received a single notification of trafficking of children under 18 in Malmo.
the explanation, according to Lisa Green, is that the police do not handle the notifications as notifications. Instead be many of them received as tips and visible thus not in the statistics.
– then, of course these cases never to public attention. Nor can see that the police fail to investigate these crimes, says Lisa Green.
Since April this year the responsibility of human beings moved from the border police to the police investigation unit.
When did Lisa Green it would be better, but she was disappointed.
When the responsibility was transferred to the new police department received two investigators follow the move. The five scouts who worked for several years remained with the border police and have new data.
– Very knowledge of how to work against human trafficking was lost, says Leif Fransson, deputy head of the border police.
the two investigators who nonetheless moved with even those largely given other tasks, according to Leif Fransson. One of them is on loan to the Serious Crime Department and the other investigator working only with human trafficking cases at halftime.
Mattias Sigfridsson manage the new police department, which is responsible for human trafficking.
– Right now it’s not working with human trafficking, he said.
Lisa Green hear the stories, but becomes dejected when she understands that kids most likely will not get any help.
– it’s frustrating and you know it probably will not lead anywhere. These children get the no redress, she says.
The frustration eventually became so great that Lisa Green and her colleagues in the national team against human trafficking at the County Administrative Board in Stockholm last year turned to the Chief of Police Dan Eliasson to sound the alarm about how the police in Skåne makes its priority.
in October, a clear message in the form of a decision by the Commissioner.
in order protocol pointing Eliasson with the whole hand and writes that police should “strengthen their capacity to combat human trafficking.” The decision emphasized the importance of cooperation with the county administrative experts in the field.
But when Lisa Green shows the decision protocol for the new police chief Mattias Sigfridsson she gets the same answer as she had before:
“Human trafficking cases are not something we prioritize. “
– Yes, but this is the way it is. We have no ability to do that right now. There is no staff, says Mattias Sigfridsson.
There is a decision from the Commissioner that you should raise the ambition of precisely these crimes, why do not you do it?
– It’s as frustrating to us that we do not have the ability to do our job. It is a pain that we prioritize removed crimes where children are forced into sex against their will. It gives as clear a bad signal to the entire community.
Suspected trafficking of children registered with the City of Malmö
2016 (through June) – 31 cases ( including 7 minors)
2015-35 cases (including 14 minors)
2014-47 agricultural leases (including 20 minors)
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