CRIME. Refugee children suspected to have been forced into prostitution in Malmo, reported Sydsvenskan.
But despite the Chief of Police Dan Eliasson’s call for Skåne police to combat human trafficking consider that the police do not have the resources.
– We do not have the ability to do it right now. There is no staff, said the police chief Mattias Sigfridsson to Sydsvenskan.
Skåne County Administrative Board has registered 32 suspected cases. The cases have been discovered by staff on asylum accommodation, the Migration Board and the Social Services.
Staff on asylum accommodation testify that the children disappeared in the evenings. The children themselves also told us that they transferred to Sweden and then become locked in apartments as sex slaves, the paper said.
Meanwhile, the police have not investigated all crimes – none of the cases have resulted in criminal charges.
police said that it is because they are working with “one case at a time,” because the cases are “complicated and takes a lot of time.”
– the children have probably been exposed, but my job is to prioritize, says Leif Fransson deputy head of the border police, told the newspaper.
last year turned national team against human trafficking at the Stockholm county Administrative Board to the chief of police Dan Eliasson and sounded the alarm about the situation in Skåne.
In October came the reply:
According to a decision protocols Eliasson urged the police in Skåne to “strengthen its ability to fight human trafficking”. There, he pointed also to the importance of cooperation with the county administrative experts in the field.
But despite the decision considers that the police are not able to prioritize trafficking cases.
– It’s just as frustrating for us that we have not 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, says Mattias Sigfridsson to Sydsvenskan.
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