Trafficking in human beings for sexual and other purposes - Polisen

3. Criminal Development34Philippines who were living in poverty. He was arrestedin Sweden in July after a tip-off to police.The man was charged with the sexual exploitationof children, child pornography offences and theattempted rape of a child. Investigators from theNational Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber-Crime Sectiontravelled to the Philippines on two occasions toconduct interviews with the children, and on one furtheroccasion before recording evidence via videolink. The trial was held in the Eskilstuna DistrictCourt in December 2011 and the man was sentencedin March 2012 to imprisonment for 18 months foraggravated sexual abuse of children, the sexual abuseof children and child pornography offences 50 .European collaborative project, HavenIn 2010, Europol, carried out a survey into the way casesconcerning child trafficking for sexual purposes outsidea country’s national boundaries were dealt with inEU member countries. The authority found that manycountries had neither established procedures nor allocatedresources for dealing with these cases.In order to improve member states’ investigationsinto this type of crime, increase the number of prosecutionsand improve collaboration, the EuropolChild Exploitation Group implemented a Europeancollaborative project called “Haven”. The first stepwas a joint day of action at some of Europe’s majorairports, in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands andGermany in March 2011.The aim of this day of action was to:• detect and prevent European citizens from committingsexual abuse of children throughout the world.• detect sexual offences against children abroad, initiatepreliminary investigations and prosecute suspects.• detect people who are carrying child pornographymaterials.50 Eskilstuna District Court 29.03. 2012, Case no B 1875-11.• raise awareness among the general public about theexistence of the phenomenon and that a team withinthe police authorities is working on the problem.• expand and improve collaboration between policeand customs authorities to make further jointactions of a similar nature possible.• gather knowledge about how and where “child sextourists” are travelling, to optimise working methods.In Sweden, the day of action was carried out atArlanda Airport in a collaborative operation involvingthe National Bureau of Investigation, the StockholmCounty Police Authority and Swedish Customs.The operations team inspected five flight arrivals, onefrom Turkey and four from Thailand and checked1,623 passengers. IT forensic scientists examinedtechnological equipment consisting of eight harddisks, four digital cameras, two mobile phones, a videocamera, nine USB sticks, six DVDs and a videotape, belonging to 28 passengers, but did not find anycriminal material.Swedish Prosecution Authority Review ProjectIn December 2011, the Swedish Prosecution Authority,Development Centre Gothenburg, published areview report on child sex tourism 51 . The review wascarried out in response to the criticisms levelled at theSwedish Prosecution Authority for failures in handlingso-called child sex tourism cases.The Swedish Prosecution Authority reviewed thirteencases on which police reports had been drawn upbetween 2008 and 2010, and additional reports madein 2011. The Authority established that three preliminaryinvestigations had been closed because of evidenceproblems while the rest are still ongoing. At thetime the report was compiled in July 2011 not one preliminaryinvestigation had led to legal proceedings.51 Child sex tourism - a review project. Available at: http://www.aklagare.se. Under the Documents tab, and under the heading“2011 - Review of child sex tourism.”