Within my job, we have clients from all over the world (USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland).
Something that is known within this line of work is that if you work day shift there would be
a lot (-and I mean a lot) of human trafficking calls from the UK specifically.
Mostly detectives interviewing victims of human trafficking.
It’s an incredibly fucked up fact and a quite disturbing call to sit through.
A lot of these victims are either illegal immigrants (you can reference the Essex lorry deaths)
or they were just literally kidnapped for different reasons (most popular being cannabis cultivation).
In terms of my own experience with this I have served several calls helping Vietnamese victims of
human trafficking and they almost always have the same stories.
They were lured in by some random people with job offers and they would then be bought to the
middle of nowhere, blindfolded, held at gun point and then forced to a house to do whatever
those traffickers want them to do.
Mine are mostly for cannabis cultivation.
The victims would get sick at some point and then the traffickers will just drop them off at
a random location in the UK and that’s it.
There would be actual hotels around the UK dedicated to housing traffickers victims
just so you know the sheer prominence of this problem.
Not a lot of news talk about this within my country specifically or in the UK as a matter of fact.
I am still lucky (-ironically enough) that I have not had to serve calls from victims of sex human
trafficking but believe there is a handful of that.
And it is not just a problem happening to only Vietnamese.
My Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking colleagues have served calls of this nature as well and
it seems to be a really rampant yet not-talked-about problem happening specifically to the UK.
I am honestly heartbroken just thinking about helpless it is to go to a foreign country,
not speaking their language, in the hopes of making a living for your family,
just so you wound up being physically, mentally and sexually tortured by these monsters.
It’s one of the harder moments of this job for sure and just one more reason to dwindle your faith in humanity.
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