Research highlights training deficiencies and the need for a nuanced approach to those who are criminally exploited

17th April 2026Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

UK policing’s current national training approach to child criminal exploitation (CCE) and criminal exploitation (CE) is “largely deficient”, according to a new report from the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre, which also calls for a shift from an enforcement lens to one of vulnerability to tackle CCE/CE and criminal exploitation in drug markets, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports.

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Research highlights training deficiencies and the need for a nuanced approach to those who are criminally exploited

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