Our work in Ukraine began in April 2022, when the conflict made direct access impossible. From neighbouring Moldova, we trained 367 frontline staff and volunteers from 60 organisations in how to identify and support victims of human trafficking. Since then, we have worked with both Ukrainian civil society and police, including...
We’re proud to share two recent successes where our expert human trafficking and modern slavery assessments played a critical role in challenging the criminalisation of exploited children. In the first case, we supported the defence of a 17-year-old looked-after child facing trial for possession of a 10-inch “Rambo-style” knife. This young...
Last week our company directors Bernie Gravett and Colin Carswell MA were back in Ukraine, training senior investigators from the National Police of Ukraine in ‘Interviewing sexually abused children’. This is a difficult subject, but incredibly important skill set for investigators to learn. Sadly, the same as every country...
As Modern Slavery experts, we don't always get to hear the outcomes of the cases we provide independent reports for. This week though we've been notified of two positive outcomes. The first case involves a young Albanian male, brought to the UK on the false promise of work, charged £20,000 by...
Last week, our Directors Bernie Gravett and Colin Carswell MA attended the OSCE Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (CTHB) 25th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons. The conference had almost 500 in person attendees a well...
In February, we at Specialist Policing Consultancy had the privilege of once again visiting Ukraine to meet with key institutions and associates including the Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG), the National Police of Ukraine (NPU), the UNODC, Caritas Ukraine...
2024 was quite a year for us! We wrote over 150 expert witness reports specifically regarding human trafficking and modern slavery. For every one of these our experts interviewed the victim, reviewed the full case papers and provided the Courts and Immigration Tribunals a thorough, detailed and (importantly) impartial expert...
We are incredibly proud that our Company Director, Bernie Gravett, along with leading human rights Barrister, Isabella Kirwan, are currently delivering training to prosecutors in Uzbekistan on combating human trafficking. As part of our ongoing commitment to global efforts in fighting human trafficking, this training...
It’s been a busy week here at Specialist Policing Consultancy as we work on several important initiatives in the fight against human trafficking. Here’s a quick update on what our team has been focused on: - We are preparing a training programme for prosecutors in Uzbekistan on behalf of the OSCE,...
Congratulations to Parosha Chandran, Professor of Modern Slavery Law at King’s College London and Human Rights Barrister for her success in B.B. v. Slovakia, (Application no. 48587/21) at the European Court this week. When will European law enforcement learn that human trafficking and modern slavery cases must be properly and professionally investigated...
