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Targeting the traffickers: Policing steps up approach to tackling modern slavery

This month a trial began in Belgium of 23 defendants accused of involvement in a people smuggling ring that led to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in a lorry in the UK in 2019; with such high-profile cases making modern slavery an ever-more visible crime – and the subject of significant government funding – Policing Insight’s Chris Allen takes a closer look at how law enforcement is tackling the issue.

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