Stricter policies needed to fight organised crime - expert
An independent researcher and
violence monitor says stricter policies are needed to fight organised
crime.
Mary de Haas has been commenting on a KZN police investigation into a suspected kidnapping case in Durban's Springfield Park area.
While tracking the location of a suspect linked to the foreign national's disappearance last week, they swooped on a house in Benoni in Gauteng.
Thirty-three suspected victims of human trafficking were rescued.
A suspect is due to appear in court soon.
De Haas says those running trafficking rings are sometimes highly respected people.
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“The people who are the syndicate operators are often affluent people, and the same would go with human trafficking.
“It is lucrative and you have a population of children who aren't being looked after properly they become targets. You can also have someone who is quite respectable."
