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The purpose of this indicator is to measure the prevalence of the number of victims of trafficking according to the victims profile and the forms of exploitation.

The indicator is defined as the ratio between the total number of victims of trafficking in persons detected or living in a country and the population resident in the country, expressed per 100,000 populations. According to Article 3, paragraph (a) of the UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol, trafficking in persons is defined as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs”.

Ministry of National Security

Ministry of Defense

Ministry of National Security

Ministry of Defense

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Ratio between the sum of detected and undetected victims of trafficking and the population resident in the country, multiplied by 100,000

Human trafficking is a crime that, according to the Art. 189a of the Criminal Code is punishable by imprisonment for not less than 3 years. Under the concept of human trafficking, according to Art. 115 § 22 Criminal Code is understood as recruiting, transporting, delivering, transferring, storing or receiving a person using:

1. unlawful violence or threats,
2. abduction,
3. deceit,
4. deceiving or exploiting an error or inability to properly understand the action taken,
5. abuse of dependency ratio, use of critical position or helplessness,
6. grant or accept any personal or financial benefit or promise to a person who carries or supervises another person - in order to use it, even with her consent, particularly in prostitution, pornography or other forms of sexual exploitation, at work or in forced, begging, slavery or other forms of exploitation degrading human dignity or in order to obtain cells, tissues or organs contrary to the provisions of the law.

If the perpetrator's behaviour concerns a juvenile, it constitutes trafficking even if the methods or measures listed in points 1-6 are not used.

According to the definition given in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, trafficking in persons has three constituent elements; The Act (Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons), the Means

(Threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control over another person) and the Purpose (at minimum exploiting the prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or similar practices and the removal of organs).

The definition implies that the exploitation does not need to be in place, as the intention by traffickers to exploit the victim is sufficient to define a trafficking offence. Furthermore, the list of exploitative forms is not limited, which means that other forms of exploitation may emerge, and they could be considered to represent additional forms of trafficking offences.

is by sex and age of victims and form of exploitation.

This numerator of this indicator is composed of two parts: detected and undetected victims of trafficking in persons. The detected part of trafficking victims, as resulting from investigation and prosecution activities of criminal justice system, is counted and reported by national law enforcement authorities.

The indicator is calculated as the ratio between the sum of detected and undetected victims of trafficking and the population resident in the country, multiplied by 100,000.

This indicator is used to help the Ministry of National Security measure the number of victims of human trafficking.

This indicator does not cover the dark number of crime, i.e. the number of victims non detected by the authorities. The number of detected victims does not monitor the level of trafficking of persons so interpretation of trends should be done with caution, as changes in detected victims of trafficking can be due to multiple factors such as intensity of trafficking flows but also to changes of law enforcement practices, changes in legislation, or changes in victims attitudes.

All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.

Data was also retrieved from http://sdg.gov.pl/assets/pdf/en/16-2-2.pdf/.