Serbia mulls harsher penalties for human trafficking
Serbia's Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said Monday that Serbia was considering instituting harsher penalties for human trafficking.
Monday, 15.10.2012.
13:47
BELGRADE Serbia's Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said Monday that Serbia was considering instituting harsher penalties for human trafficking. At a conference dubbed "Criminal Justice Response to Human Trafficking in South East Europe," Dacic recalled that since 2009 the minimum sentence for human trafficking has been three years in prison without the possibility of parole, and five years in cases where the victim is a minor. Serbia mulls harsher penalties for human trafficking According to Dacic, there is a need to consider stricter punishment. He said the Serbian police investigated 25 cases of human trafficking in the first nine months of this year, filed criminal charges against 55 people, and identified 49 victims, one of whom was a foreign citizen. Dacic said that sexual exploitation of women and girls accounted for almost 60 percent of all trafficking cases, 20 percent were forced to become beggars and around the same number of victims, mostly boys, were forced to commit crimes. According to Dacic, regional cooperation is also extremely important, which is why the Interior Ministry has worked together with the UN agencies' Joint Program since June 2010 to suppress and combat human trafficking. The implementation of the program has contributed to a more successful fight against human trafficking in Serbia and has strengthened the legal protection of victims, said the prime minister. The program has encompassed training for 160 judges, prosecutors and police officers, the adoption of a special protocol on judicial bodies' actions in protection of victims, the establishment of law clinics at the law schools in Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad, and victims can now give their statements via video link. The prime minister added that technical equipment worth USD 120,000 was currently being procured with money donated by the Belgian and Swiss governments and the organization UN.GIFT. He said training designed to improve police officers' skills in communication with victims of human trafficking would starting Monday in cooperation with NGO Astra and with the help of experts from the Dutch police. As an example of good cooperation with neighboring countries, Dacic mentioned an operation executed together with the Romanian police, during which the police arrested seven members of an organized criminal group from Serbia who solicited a woman in Moldova for the purposes of sexual exploitation in the EU. The conference in Belgrade on Monday (Tanjug) Tanjug
Serbia mulls harsher penalties for human trafficking
According to Dačić, there is a need to consider stricter punishment.He said the Serbian police investigated 25 cases of human trafficking in the first nine months of this year, filed criminal charges against 55 people, and identified 49 victims, one of whom was a foreign citizen.
Dačić said that sexual exploitation of women and girls accounted for almost 60 percent of all trafficking cases, 20 percent were forced to become beggars and around the same number of victims, mostly boys, were forced to commit crimes.
According to Dačić, regional cooperation is also extremely important, which is why the Interior Ministry has worked together with the UN agencies' Joint Program since June 2010 to suppress and combat human trafficking.
The implementation of the program has contributed to a more successful fight against human trafficking in Serbia and has strengthened the legal protection of victims, said the prime minister.
The program has encompassed training for 160 judges, prosecutors and police officers, the adoption of a special protocol on judicial bodies' actions in protection of victims, the establishment of law clinics at the law schools in Belgrade, Niš and Novi Sad, and victims can now give their statements via video link.
The prime minister added that technical equipment worth USD 120,000 was currently being procured with money donated by the Belgian and Swiss governments and the organization UN.GIFT.
He said training designed to improve police officers' skills in communication with victims of human trafficking would starting Monday in cooperation with NGO Astra and with the help of experts from the Dutch police.
As an example of good cooperation with neighboring countries, Dačić mentioned an operation executed together with the Romanian police, during which the police arrested seven members of an organized criminal group from Serbia who solicited a woman in Moldova for the purposes of sexual exploitation in the EU.
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