Human trafficking

INTERPOL creates specialist network to combat people smuggling

INTERPOL and Europol, two major transnational law enforcement agencies, have outlined fresh measures to break up the organised criminal networks behind people smuggling.

Following an international conference they are to establish a specialist division to counter people smuggling in and across the migration routes

INTERPOL Secretary General is Jürgen Stock: “We have seen that the routes are changing very dynamically. The criminal groups for instance they use, very intensively, the modern technologies of communication, social media for instance.
So there is a need for not just a bilateral sharing of information or a regional sharing,there is really a need for a global sharing, a transcontinental sharing of information.”