The Police focuses on the client of prostitution its new campaign against trafficking: "You pay for their slavery"

MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Police and the Romanian Police have launched a joint campaign against human trafficking that focuses the main message on the client of sexual services. "If you are a client, you pay for their slavery", is one of the main messages of a video broadcast on social networks this Tuesday, October 19, European Day against human trafficking.

During the past year 2021 and the present 2022, the National Police detected 168 victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation, in addition to processing 76 reports related to this type of crime. Regarding labor exploitation, 78 victims were detected and 22 reports were processed.

In the same time frame there were 662 sexually exploited victims, processing 123 reports, as well as 604 victims of labor exploitation and 80 reports related to this casuistry.

For this reason, the Police have explained that the message is a continuation of the one launched in 2021 in a pioneering campaign in Spain aimed at clients who demand sexual services, "a figure that had always remained on the sidelines of the situation in sexual exploitation ".

"The success achieved has caused the police authorities of Spain and Romania to commit to launching a joint campaign, presented simultaneously in both countries and disseminated through the media and social networks", explained the police officers, including the General Commissioner for Immigration and Borders, Julián Ávila Polo.

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The phenomenon of trafficking in human beings affects thousands of people, mainly women and sexually exploited minors, but a high percentage of men are added for their labor exploitation and, to a lesser extent, other minors exploited in begging, for the commission of crimes as well as forced marriages.

Through the telephone line 900105090 and the email treat@policia.es, the National Police facilitates citizen collaboration and the anonymous and confidential reporting of this type of crime without the call being reflected in the telephone bill.