Police professional | Exploitation and cuckoo of children criminal criminal to become crimes

Exploitation and cuckoo of children criminal criminal to become crimes

Two new crimes are to be prepared as part of the crime and the police officers, make the criminal exploitation of children and the “cuckoo” illegal.

The legislation is brought forward to forbid cuckoo, an extremely exploitative practice in which criminals take control of the house of a endangered person without illegal activities such as drug trafficking.

Another new crime is created against adults who use a child to commit criminal activities.

Current estimates show that in 2023/24 around 14,500 children were classified as endangered or classified in the CCCCCCCCCE CCCCE (CCCE), although this is probably an underestimation, since many children used will not be known to the authorities, according to the Home Office .

In the context of the applicable legislation, however, only a small number of people were charged for the use of children in criminal activities.

The independent CCE criminal offense is aimed at adults who form and exploit children in criminal activities, e.g.

Those who were convicted of committing a CCE criminal offense could have a maximum of ten years in prison.

The Interior Minister Yvette Cooper said: “The exploitation of children and people in need of protection for criminal profits is disgusting and it is important that we do everything in our power to eradicate it from our streets.

“We introduce these two crimes to properly punish those who deny them that the victims are properly protected and prevent them from occurring often hidden crimes.

“These steps are of crucial importance for our efforts to stop care and exploitation of children into criminal gangs, to sign our promise to halve the razor crime in the next decade and to work on our general mission to make our streets safer.

“The new legislation also includes the creation of new CCE prevention orders, which can be issued by the police at the end of the criminal proceedings or at the request.

“These tailor -made arrangements will ensure that courts who can use the risk of childhood to criminal purposes can impose restrictions and requirements, e.g.

“This will help to manage the risk of an insult or revival, and the violations of these commands (or non -compliance with the relevant notification requirements) are also a crime with a maximum punishment of five years in prison.

The children's commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza said that the criminal exploitation of children is “a complex type of abuse that harms the victims in a way that has been undergoing too long and badly understood”.

She added: “Many children who are attacked by adult criminals themselves are exposed to punishment instead of support. Like too many children's victims, they are often ignored and overlooked. Your voices and experiences must be heard if we want to create a child -centered judicial system that protects itself in the heart.

“The introduction of these new criminal offenses and new prevention orders will help to create the urgently needed clarity that exploited children are victims. I hope that this enables experts to intervene in far earlier intervention stages that are supported by plans to create a clear identification number for each child with which services identify those who need support. “

Baroness Anne Longfield, CEO of the Center for Young Lives, said: “The ruthless criminal exploitation of children in need of protection was too long a brutal and lucrative business model for organized criminals.

“It had tragic consequences for thousands of young life and destroyed by families and communities.

“This change in law is long overdue, very welcome and will save lives.”

Mark Russell, Managing Director of Children's Society, said that this is an “important step forward, which we have been using for years”.

“An independent crime of CCE will finally focus on perpetrators and not to victims,” ​​he added.

“Adults who maintain children in criminal activities – force them to keep drugs, to wash money or to commit the theft – discover their responsibility. Longs such as drug possession ignore the nuclear truth; These are children's abuse who take advantage of endangered young people.

“To protect the 14,500 children who are at risk last year – and the thousands more invisible – these measures must be supported by three pillars. Strong enforcement, training for the protection of experts and a legal definition of CCE to end the zip code in the support of the victims.

“This is how we break cycles of the damage: punish the exploiters, prioritize the victims and put the safety of children in the first place.”

The law on crime and police work is to be introduced in parliament this week.