Loading ...Romania is among the countries which have deployed major efforts to adjust the legislation in this field with the international provisions, with a permanent preoccupation of the police structures to fight trafficking in human beings and protect victims without discrimination, reads the Global Report on human trafficking carried by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
At the same time, the report emphasizes Romania's progress within the efforts deployed by the Department for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) and the structures of the Romanian Police of enforcing the law, with the aim of fighting human trafficking. In this respect there has been registered a rise in the number of persons convicted for human trafficking over 2003- 2007.
Romania is among the countries which rallied in the battle fought at world level against human trafficking. A specialised structure in this respect has been established within the Department for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism, namely the Department for Fighting Human Trafficking which include:
The Service on the Fight against Human Trafficking, Service for fighting Trafficking of illegal migrants and the Service for Fighting Child Trafficking and Organ Trafficking. The specialised department has to deal with crimes of human trafficking, trafficking of illegal migrants, child trafficking, organ trafficking, being an active factor in taking of evidence in the cases on cross-border organised crime.
According to the analysis of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Romania , the victims of human trafficking were exploited mainly outside Romania's territory, Romania being in this case a source and transit country.
In 2008 the police specialized structures with the Department on the fight against human trafficking held activities designed to curb this type of crime, under the coordination of DIICOT prosecutors, with 616 criminal cases solved and the direct consequence being destructuring of 53 organised criminal groups, made up of 270 people.
The document which is based on information taken over from 155 countries is the most complex global report which mirrors the efforts of all the states of fighting human trafficking and presents general and particular aspects of the examined countries about legislation, type of human trafficking, solved cases.
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