National Police Y Civil Guard In 2021, 1,056 crime network victims were released. about and for crimes of sexual or labor exploitationIncluding two little girls, the Home Office reported on Wednesday.
This is reflected in the 2017-2021 Statistical Balance on Trafficking and Exploitation in Spain prepared by the Ministry’s Intelligence Center for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime (CITCO) under the Minister of Security.
From the total number of victims, usurped by 187 nets illegal human trafficking a person who manages to smuggle them into the country to profit from sexual or labor exploitation.
Meanwhile, 869 people were also subjected to processes of sexual or labor exploitation, but in their case it was not possible to confirm that they achieved this as a result of the action of some networks.
As a result of these numbers 226 operations undertaken by agencies in 202174 against human trafficking, 152 against sexual and labor exploitation.
The actions of the agents, Disbanding 64 criminal organizations and groups and arresting 663 people.
The statistical balance states that there are 136 victims (129 women, 5 men and 2 children) released from trafficking networks for sexual exploitation.
Their main countries of origin are: Colombia, Paraguay, Romania and Venezuela.
However, in the case of victims of sexual abuse a total of 355 people were rescued (342 adult women, 9 boys and 4 girls), mostly from Colombia, Spain, the Dominican Republic and Romania.
Also, in 2021, conducted by the National Police and Civil Guard. 1,380 administrative inspections at exercise sites prostitution is an activity that makes it possible to identify 4,704 people at risk of prostitution in these establishments.
Concerning acts against human trafficking networks for the purpose of labor exploitation, the victims released were 51, 33 of whom were women, mostly of Honduran origin.
The number of victims rescued from labor exploitation situations was 514 in 2021, two of them minors.
In the latter case, the majority gender is male (392 adults and one minor) and the main nationalities are Morocco, Senegal and Nicaragua.
As in the previous case, the National Police and the Civil Guard conducted 5,218 administrative inspections at multiple workplaces where 13,836 workers were found to be at risk for a possible violation of their right to work.
This fact led to the development of the National Strategic Plan 2021-2023 against Trafficking and Exploitation in Human Beings, which the Ministry of Interior presented on January 12.
The plan, available on the Ministry’s website, reinforces and articulates measures to improve the fight against this crime and facilitates assistance and protection for victims through a cooperation mechanism between the different bodies of the relevant General State Administration as well as specialized civil society. organizations.