TEMPLATE POLICY PAGE Category: Prostitution and Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation Country: Greece Year: / Main policy Project Management Team for Planning the Policy against Crime page: (PMT-PPC) In the context of its mission, PMT -PPC submitted to the political leadership of the Ministry of Public Order a number of suggestions for an integrated policy to protect the victims of criminal actions. The operational leadership of the Ministry approved the proposals put forward and an Information Manual was drafted to provide aid to the victims of criminal actions. This Manual, which is for Internal Police use only and was transmitted with order to all General Police Addresses and Police, includes a detailed presentation of the obligations and the possibilities of actions of police officers dealing with the following kind of cases: Crimes against minors Crimes against sexual freedom Crimes related to violence within the family Crimes against life and physical integrity Financial and sexual abuse of human beings. Furthermore, an annex is included with the Manual with useful information on how to further guide and handle those victims, orienting them to the competent institutions (including NGOs) so that they can receive further help and protection, as provided by the law. Task Force for Combating Human Trafficking(O.K.E.A) he Anti- Trafficking Team (ATT) was set up in April 2001 by the Ministry of Public Order, in order to fight human trafficking for reasons of sexual exploitation. ATT operates under the supervision of the Chief of the Hellenic Police Force who also chairs the meetings. Experienced officials of the Hellenic Police Force, a representative of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality and of the lnternational Organization of Migration (IOM), social scientists and representatives of competent Ministries (of Health, Labour, Interior, Administration and Decentralization) are also members of this Team. This particular initiative was born from the need to draw up and implement a national strategy to efficiently prevent and combat trafficking, whereas it has been included in the broader framework of modernizing the Hellenic Police Force modus operandi. By setting up the Anti- Trafficking Team, the Ministry of Public Order basically aimed at providing the institutional framework for a special, coordination body which would not 4nly draw up the policy to deal with trafficking, but which would also determine practices and propose concrete measures, thus, contributing in a decisive way to the dismantling of networks responsible for trafficking and exploiting women and children at the national and international scale. ATT has set as its main task to achieve this objective and therefore, has proceeded to drawing up and proposing a legislative framework for the prevention and crack down of crimes related to human trafficking. This task was successfully completed later on, with the introduction of the respective bill of law. %% has set among its main goals for the future firstly, to undertake more actions and initiatives, secondly, to enlarge and strengthen cooperation with all parties involved and thirdly, to identify and provide aid to as many victims as possible. According to ATT proposals was worked out the Law 3064/2002, who constitutes a pioneering and at the same time effective tool for the fighting of phenomenon. Ln April 2005, in the frame of next turnover, ATT decided the syntax of Report on Human Trafficking, which will include the action that was developed and the collaborations that were achieved with competent institutions, on subjects of confrontation and fighting of human trafficking, as well as benefit of aid and protection at its victims, at years 2003-2005, per Ministry. Today ATT is in the stage of treatment of Report and in a short time will complete its work. The Hellenic Police Force aiming at the reduction of problem, applies concrete Strategy and plans of action, in which they are included: ‘’Strategy of the Hellenic Police in Combating Trafficking in Human Beings” The coping with the phenomenon of THB that aims at sexual exploitation has become an issue of first priority for Hellenic Police through a procedure of main aims, training and increasing activity of police personnel. For this purpose there are a number of actions that have been undertaken. Specific orders have been given to the Police Divisions all over the country. Anti-trafficking Services Following a decision by the Hellenic Police Force Headquarters, in order to better fight trafficking, ant trafficking squads are operating both at the central and at the regional level. 1none hand, the anti-trafficking team at the Public Security Division has been handling this issue centrally since September 2002. The task of this team is to handle human trafficking issues and guide regional operational services. In the specialized Vice Departments of the Attica and Thessalonica Security Divisions, the anti-trafficking teams have been operating since 1-11- 2003, properly manned and equipped. As of 29/12/2005 and following the evaluation of these teams, similar squads have been set up and are currently running under 12 Police Division in the entire territory: P.D of Arcadia, P.D of Achaia, P.D of Herakleion, P.D of Ioannina, P.D of Corfu, P.D of Serres, P.D of Kozani, P. of the Cyclades, P.D 4f Larissa, P.D of Lesbos, P.D of Rodopi and P.D of Fthiotida. Furthermore, the Presidential Decree 48/13-3-2006 (art.1 sect.10) provides the creation of Deparments for Fighting Human Trafficking at the Attica and Thessalonica Police Divisions, constituting the 3rd Department of the Sub- Division dealing with Organized CFme. Training The Police Academy now includes the issue of trafficking in its curriculum in all levels of education (cadet academies and officers' continuing training courses). University professors of various disciplines, members of the 1I* division, Police Headquarters and operations division officers teach the courses. International cooperation The Greek Police force is actively working with various international organizations, specifically with the EU, the United Nations, Interpol, Europol, SECI and others, 4n this issue. Operations "Mirage 2002" and "Mirage 2003" were specifically held within the framework of the Southeast European Cooperative lnitiative (SECI). • "Mirage 2002": This operation was held between Sept. 7 and Sept. 16,2002, with SECI later announcing the following results: o A total of 20,558 inspections were made o A total of 1,738 women were queried o A total of237 women were identified as victim • "Mirage 2003": The operation was repeated in September 2003 in two phases (Sep.I-5/2003 and Sep.15-19/2oo3). According to data announced by SECI, the Operation Mirage 2003 achieved the following results: o A total of 20,629 inspections had been conducted 11,170 women had been subjected to control o 463 women had been identified as "victims" o 2,175 cases in which administrative measures had been applied (fees, temporary imprisonment, etc.) o 595 individuals had been identified as traffickers (organizations, which regularly recruit, transport and exploit women). o 319 cases for which criminal procedures had been undertaken. o 207 traffickers had been charged. • "Mirage 2004": The Operation Mirage 2004 was repeated in June 2004 yielding important results: - 601 women had been identified as "victims" - 545 persons had been identified as traffickers - 302 traffickers had been charged. This data is cumulative and concerns all participating countries. • Operation "Lida" During the Greek *O Presidency (Jan-June 2003) a joint operation, code-named "Lida", was held with very positive results. Specifically, 134 investigations were carried out, with 110 suspected traffickers identified, of which 38 were arrested. Greece was responsible for coordinating the operation, while the evaluation process was conducted with the support of Europol. *O Member-states that participated in the operation included Greece, Italy, and Portugal, whereas participating SECI Member States included Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Moldova, Hungary, Slovenia and Serbia-Montenegro. Plan of Operational – Inter-Service Action “ILAEIRA” The Ministry of Public Order and the Hellenic Police Headquarters considered that it was necessary to implement an organized operational action, named ILAEIRA, aiming at the suppression and combating of women and child trafficking for the purposes of exploiting sexual life. Its objective is the substantial, coordinated and effective action of all agencies involved, as their piecemeal activity is not sufficient for the suppression of such an international phenomenon. The official commencement of such action took place on 7/12/2006 in Athens in the presence of the Vice-President of the European Committee on Justice and Internal Affairs issues, Mr. Franco FRATTINI, as an official guest, and the whole effort was set under his auspices. ILAEIRA plan is developed at two levels, National and International- Transnational and involves four (4) implementation phases. The plan, acting at preventive and suppressive level, is developed on the basis of two (2) parameters: The 1st Parameter concerns the Operational (Police- Judicial) action for the combating of organized networks with international character and for victims’ liberation. The 2nd Parameter concerns the provision of assistance and protection to victims, as a result of the action that will be developed under the