In a liberal society local councils, must monitor,be budgeted and personnel to `police' the `prositution' in their local communitities, to know whom are the `human trafficked' illegal women being exploited by the `mafia' modern day `slavers'!

To be bought and sold under fraud by ``human trafickers' is a totally humanly degrading eclipsing experience for the women involved.

Most women are being brought into the UK from countries like Moldova and Eastern Europe and have little English but with erstwhile high standards of morality in their own countries.

The women are being duped by `human trafficking mafia' whom reduce women to commoditiesand trade them rather like inaminate goods, with no soul or personality.

Human traffickers must be stopped and beefing up this insidious human trade in people with greater scope and role for Operation Poppy ,working closely with SNT Teams and Councils will help restore lost human dignity and offer a new start for many innocent women

Cllr.Patrick Smith, London, E4

There is no such thing as Human Rights for Pimps or Sex-Slavers.

All clients of Brothels, when identified, should systematically have their photos and personal details published in the local press, on posters and on websites. They should be heavily fined and have their identity (photos, fingerprints, DNA ) on a national police register.

Foreign gangsters who run these establishments should systematically be subject to long terms of imprisonment before being deported. Native-pimps should be given life imprisonment. ALL their assets MUST be seized and divided between the police forces (to fund their 'search and destroy' activities), and the sex slaves. The latter should then be given police protection (paid for by the above funds) or accompanied back to their homelands with their part of the money THEY have earned.

It all comes down to the money the pimps extort by fear - so ALL the money and ALL other assets should be seized by the authorities to make the Pimps' pain permanent.

Pierre, Paris, France

So SOCA are "preparing" to devote 25 % of its resources to combatting human trafficking? If you look on its website for its Business Plan for 2006-7 you'll see that 25% of its effort is already devoted to that area. So in fact they are "getting ready " to raise the effort from 25% to 25%. A fine response. What an agency.
The Home Secretary must be pleased, she may well ask them to raise the commitment still further over time, perhaps to one part in four.

Alistair Stuart, London, UK