Human Rights Perspective in Law Enforcements
It was proven by the judicial interventions like that of Delhi High Court, that it is possible to shift focus from punishing the victims to punishing the exploiters. To adopt the human rights approach in law enforcement, certain modifications have to be brought in the current practices of law enforcement like: Declaring trafficking offences as ‘grave offences’ or ’special crimes, which are to be supervised by the police officer of the rank of SP/DCP. Fixing the accountability of the officers concerned for acts of commission and omission. Police and prosecution officials have to be sensitized.
Activities and initiatives that uphold the right of women and children have to be publicly commended. Circulars and directives by the government and police chiefs have to be sent to concerned departments on these practices. ' Personnel belonging to district police, railway police, special outfits like CBI and CID have to be trained on a priority basis as they have an important role in controlling trafficking in women and children. Extending investigations in or out of brothels
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Those brothels are running in a organized manner. More often police personnel are found to be directly or indirectly involved for monetary gain or for otherwise purposes. Sometimes politician are also involved. For the above reasons It is encouraging to notice that, there is an emerging trend of punishing the brothel owners and exploiters. However, investigations have to go beyond brothels, which are the most obvious sites of crime to reach the source of trafficking and to expose trafficking routes, crime syndicates and gangs involved etc. This calls for multi-disciplinary and in-depth approach. Efforts also have to be made to unearth illegal assets of the traffickers and to confiscate and forfeit these
Due to lack or inadequate training, it is difficult for law enforcement officers to identify a human trafficking case thus hard to investigate the suspected trafficking case. According to research most of the law enforcement agencies hardly realized the acts of human trafficking and most of them had officials who could not handle such situations due to lack of training. This inadequacy cultivated the growth of such an act to a higher level such that by the time they realized its impact, it was almost too late. In the interview, the coordinator admits that the department not only trains all their recruits on human trafficking but also goes to the extent of offering the training to other law enforcement department when they request them to do so. Through this the, US ensure that besides having enough law enforcement officers capable of handling human trafficking, the officers train through identifying such crimes and improved methods of investigating human trafficking cases.
Other factors can assist in the fight, however, the three solutions listed here are the most critical and should be the first ensued if the battle against human trafficking and forced prostitution is to be
There are three components that make up the criminal justice system – the police, courts, and correctional facilities – they all work together in order to protect individuals and their rights as a citizen of society to live without the fear of becoming the victim of a crime. Crime, simply put is when a person violates criminal law; the criminal justice system is society’s way of implementing social control. When all three components of the criminal justice work together, it functions almost perfectly. For a person to enter the criminal justice system, the process must begin with the law enforcement.
An international enterprise has been organized for the production distribution of drugs heroin and cocaine in particular (Adler, Mueller, & Laufer, 2013, p. 364). Law enforcement and health agencies have made efforts to control the drug problem. These efforts stem in drug trafficking, treating addicts, educating the public, and arresting and incarcerating offenders (Adler, Mueller, & Laufer, 2013, p. 364). The strategies that focus on arresting prostitutes are unlikely to be effective. It is best to seek strategies that reduce the harms caused and experienced by prostitutes are more likely to work than those seeking to eliminate prostitution.
Another effective ways to lessen human trafficking can be by making knowledgeable about the dangers of this disgraceful act in ordinary awareness programs and provide a moral and spiritual help to the victims providing them the understanding of how immoral this job is, likewise mental backing and free or low cost services could be provided to the victims of human trafficking by the anti-trafficking associations. Staffs of the anti-trafficking associations should be prepared well to recognize the victims and provide them immense support and care. On the other hand the government itself can reduce human trafficking by bringing in severe rules and regulations and bringing out laws that can remove human trafficking completely. The government can likewise reduce human trafficking by concentrating on decreasing the corruption level in their nations and reinforce the authorization of law. It is the government obligation to take a move on the human trafficking and must punish the individuals who carry out such human trafficking crimes and should be faced to severe penalties and such individuals must be sentenced to prison for their entire lifetime or punished accordingly to their level of
As a criminal act, trafficking violates the rule of law, threatening national jurisdictions and international law. Further, trafficking in persons redirects the benefits of migration from migrants, their families, community and government or other potential legitimate employers to the traffickers and their associates. Difficult as it is to measure accurately the scope of human trafficking, it is equally difficult to measure its impact. The dynamics of the trade are constantly evolving and a range of national perspectives exist.
An important role is carried out by the criminal justice system in a democratic society. My philosophy and approach for balancing individual rights and public protection is that law enforcement authorities should restrict citizens’ liberties through force to compel obedience of law if those liberties cause harm to the society. Authorities maintain law and order by restricting freedoms of the citizens through force to constrain them to obey the law penalizing those who disobey the law. However, the citizens must be free to exercise the freedoms granted and guaranteed by the Constitution. Therefore, the law must give way to reasonable exercise of civil liberties when those freedoms do not cause harm to others.
Introduction Human rights are rights that are entitled to every individual regardless of nationality and citizenship as it is inherent, inalienable, and universal. The presence of basic human rights are vital in upholding a civilized society. The idea of having individual rights and freedom is not a new concept in Britain, in fact it has very deep roots. History shows landmark advancements such as Magna Carta 1215, Habeas Corpus Act 1679, and Bill of Rights and Claim of Rights 1689 all had important roles in protecting citizen’s rights.
Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons (TIP) or modern day slavery, is a heinous and widespread crime occurring around the world in nearly every society. Most people often thought slavery was part of the past; however, human slavery is part of our current society and has been an on-going issue around the world. Human trafficking is a type of slavery that involves forced or bonded labour, sexual servitude, child labour, or involuntary servitude all over the world. It is important to note that sex trafficking contributes to more than half of human trafficking and most of these victims are women and young girls. This modern day slavery can happen to anyone, anywhere, and at anytime (Ton, 2012).This literature review of documents and reports
When it comes to having and being able to maintain a strong moral code, front line patrol officers are the perfect example of what law enforcement requires. To ensure front line patrol officers maintain a strong moral code, they must be able to keep their integrity on and off duty. Officers should have this characteristic before they are hired and should be open for the police academy to repair and strengthen them. Law enforcement requires not only physical strength within the policing work field but also strength within one’s values and their ethical as well as moral beliefs. ‘’Values is the term given to those ideas, behaviors, and actions that are important to us.
The crimes had become more sofesticated, more organized,more deceitful, and even more difficult to get hold of. The system of policeing that is followed in india is still very old and the changing world demands for a much effective system, that will be more focused on speedy investigation and justice to the victims. The world around us is changing and the morden police is required to bring in an equilibrium in the socity, but in doing so the police face a lot of difficulties be it reguarding the laws in force of the probpems of purgery various problems because of policical pressure or the obsoleteness of the police Act. This article aims to point out the various problems faced by
magine a world without laws, Imagine people being able to commit crimes without anything being done, Imagine how all this important information about laws and why we have them would be nothing in the world today. Crimes are committed on a daily basis, but the law does everything to help those people who are in danger of committing those crimes by stopping them before it’s too late. sometimes the crimes are committed before the law can get to them so enforcement takes the job of taking their freedom away for them. Law Enforcement is important because without it everyone would be afraid of life. Everyone needs it for as long as Humanity exists because as humans people create mistakes that can severely harm and hurt others.
This sort of sexual exploitation in the form of human trading, is bring notoriety to its name and a lot of countries consider Pakistan as one of the major trafficker and blame it as a reason for this ghastly crime accompanying other countries and even United States Department of state recently raised a finger at Pakistan for being a base area of this deplorable business. Poverty is the leading cause of this slavery, and it’s evident that poverty leads to uneducation resulting in increased unemployment giving rise to such trafficking cases in society. Besides human trafficking is one of those serious crimes which is globally considered as the major cause of a fact that majority of the people carrying HIV/AIDS virus are women. Many women and children are unaware of risks associated when they intentionally opt for selling their bodies.
R.H.Waghamode , J. L. Kalyan and S. S. Angadi, in their paper Human Trafficking In India: A Study, stated that Human Trafficking is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon and requires multidisciplinary approach. The key feature of the present research lies in its study not only of the affected women but also of the courts, police stations and complaints/FIRs regarding related crimes. For easy translation of the recommendations, the concerns have been concretized into formulating policies and programmes. The objectives of this research paper is to understand the problem and perspective of Human Trafficking, and attempt to analyze It 's Impact on Society, Preventive Measures, Legal Aspects for Human Trafficking in India, Role of Judiciary and also
The largest Human trafficking problems are forced labour, abduction and abuse of child, illegal migration, prostitution, people and drug smuggling and trafficking of tissue, cells and organs of human being. Human trafficking has truly become a global threat to vulnerable men, women, and children worldwide. It is a dirty deal that affects millions of people every year on every continent and at all socioeconomic levels. In Pakistan most uncertain issues of human trafficking are abduction and abuse of child, illegal migration with forced labour, prostitution. It has terrible effects on victim’s mental, physical and social life.