Which competent authority, UN body or official assistance channel should the person use?
For suspected human trafficking or exploitation, An Garda Síochána directs the person or someone assisting them to contact their local Gardaí. Suspected crime can also be reported anonymously through the Garda Confidential Number 1800 666 111 or confidentially by the Blue Blindfold email shown on the official Garda page. The Garda page identifies fraud, deception, coercion and document control among trafficking indicators. These reporting channels are help and referral routes; contacting them does not itself grant an immigration permission.
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Limits of the record- The Garda help page does not determine eligibility, referral into victim-protection arrangements or a grant outcome.
- Garda Human Trafficking FAQ reporting channels
I have suspicions in relation to human trafficking. What should I do?
If you or someone you know is being exploited, contact your local Gardaí. If you wish to report a crime anonymously you can contact the Garda Confidential Number 1800 666 111. You can also email anonymously and with strict confidentiality to
blueblindfold@garda.ie
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- Garda Human Trafficking definition and fraud/deception warning
Trafficking involves the recruitment, movement, harbouring or receiving of a person through means such as fear, fraud and deception, coercion, force or the abuse of power or a position of vulnerability, for the purpose of their sexual or labour exploitation, forced criminality or the removal of the organs of a person.
- Garda Human Trafficking document-control indicator
Traffickers use a number of strategies in their efforts to control their commodities, which are human beings. The most common examples are debt bondage where the trafficker has taken the opportunity to travel to another place based on a loan or an arrangement for them or their family in their country of origin to pay back the travel costs. There may be removal or control of documentation or demands for more money during this process. But invariably once within the realms of control, the victim’s personal freedom, threats to their life and safety, or that of their family, and subjugation to forms of physical, sexual, psychological and emotional abuse can all become apparent.
