National Threat Assessment 2008. Organised Crime - Politie

2.6.3 Scale
Exploitation in prostitution
No reliable figures are available as to the precise scale of the human trafficking
phenomenon. In 2005 the police forces received more than 700 credible reports
of human trafficking in relation to prostitution and more than 1,100 were
received during the first nine months of 2006. One explanation may be the
increased attention paid to human trafficking both by the police and by the
public, but not much more can be said otherwise. It is clear, however, that the
dark number is high. This is shown, for example, by the difference between
the aforementioned number of reports received by the police and the number
of (possible) victims of human trafficking in the records. The Foundation against
Trafficking in Women recorded 405 (presumed) victims in 2004, 424 in 2005
and 579 in 2006.
Exploitation in other sectors
The investigating authorities still have little insight into the scale of the problem
as regards exploitation in other sectors. In the aforementioned exploratory
study by the BNRM into other exploitation in the Netherlands, information
Table 2
Number of cases of exploitation, 2000-2005, per sector
Sector
Number of cases of exploitation
Domestic work (including childcare) 11
Number of cases involving relatives 6
Agriculture and (glasshouse) horticulture 11
Temporary employment sector 10
Catering establishments 8
Number of Chinese catering establishments 3
Food industry 5
Factory labour 4
Criminal activities, including fraud 4
Construction 3
Transport and logistics 3
Retail (markets and shops) 2
Cleaning 2
Other 2
Source: Bureau Nationaal Rapporteur Mensenhandel (the bureau of the national
rapporteur on trafficking in human beings), 2007
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