Crime victims and missing persons

Human trafficking

If you have any information about human trafficking, please call the police at 192 or call the SOS line at 0800/77-99

Human trafficking includes the recruitment, buying, selling, transfer, transportation, coercion, or intermediation in buying, selling or transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, use of force, threat of use of force or other types of coercion, abduction, deception, abuse of position or power to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person.

Reasons for human trafficking 

Human trafficking is most done for:
  • Forced prostitution
  • Pornography
  • Sex tourism
  • Slavery
  • Begging
  • Illegal adoption
  • Forced and sham marriages
  • Human organ trafficking.

Warning signs of human trafficking

If you are looking for a job, be particularly careful with job advertisements which:
  • Include attractive business offers without any references
  • Offer a well-paid position without a preliminary interview with the responsible person about the qualifications, contract, work experience, etc.
  • Emphasise the urgency to fill the position and how great the salary is 
  • Provide unclear and unverifiable information about the “employer”. 

What to do if you suspect human trafficking

If you notice an attractive advertisement for a position with a great salary in the country or abroad, or if the offer seems legal because “human trafficking happens to other people”, you still need to do the following:
  • Contact the employer and ask about their references
  • Do the available checks for the employer and use open sources to collect the information?
  • Talk to the employer about the terms of employment, salary, payment of contributions
  • Request a copy and clarification of the employment agreement
  • Do not let other persons handle the administrative details of you taking up employment
  • Learn the basics of the relevant foreign language if you plan to move abroad
  • Make copies of personal documents
  • Only present your travel document to authorised officials. 
If your future employer does not want to provide any of the previously mentioned items and only gives excuses, turn down the position even no matter how attractive it seems.

How to report potential human trafficking 

If you suspect that someone is a victim of human trafficking or that someone is involved in human trafficking, do not hesitate to call the police at 192 or report this via the SOS line at 0800/77-99.

Detailed information about this topic can be found on the website of the Ministry of the Interior.