Crackdown ordered on human traffickers
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The Interior Ministry has instructed provincial governors to survey the number of migrant workers and dispatch special-task teams to crack down on human traffickers.
The move is part of the bid to get Thailand out of a Tier 3 ranking on the United States’ Trafficking in Persons Report 2015, to be out in June. People were also urged to report human trafficking on the 1567 hotline.
Permanent secretary for the Interior Wiboon Sanguanpong said yesterday governors were told to implement urgent measures until March – to gather related data, inspect establishments ‘at risk’ of having trafficked people, set up a multi-disciplined panel to screen any “damaged” victims and give regular reports of operational results to the ministry.
