2022/25057 - Arrests Under Modern Slavery Act
REQUEST
My request concerns arrests for offences under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Please provide the total number of arrests your force made for offences under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 between 1 February 2018 and 31 January 2022, with the data broken down into a year-by-year basis, i.e., 1 February 2018 – 31 January 2019, 1 February 2019 – 31 January 2020 etc.
Please also break down this arrest data by specific offence under the Act between 1 February 2018 and 1 February 2022, again with the data broken down into a year-by-year basis, i.e., 1 February 2018 – 31 January 2019, 1 February 2019 – 31 January 2020 etc.
RESPONSE
The table below provides the number of custody records for the offences under the Modern Slavery Act for the dates 1st of February 2018 to 31st of January 2022.
|
OFFENCES |
2018-2019 |
2019-2019 |
2019-2020 |
2020-2020 |
2020-2021 |
2021-2022 |
TOTAL |
|
Arrange of facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation |
2 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
11 |
3 |
24 |
|
Attempt kidnap – Common Law
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Commit offence other than kidnapping or false imprisonment with intent to commit human trafficking offence |
1 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
1 |
10 |
|
Conspire to kidnap
|
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
|
False imprisonment
|
37 |
1 |
55 |
1 |
39 |
29 |
162 |
|
Hold person in slavery or servitude |
17 |
0 |
8 |
8 |
9 |
8 |
42 |
|
Kidnap – common law
|
13 |
0 |
32 |
0 |
15 |
8 |
68 |
|
Require person to perform forced or compulsory labour |
4 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
10 |
|
TOTAL |
76 |
1 |
111 |
1 |
79 |
52 |
320 |