Human Trafficking and Illegal Crossing the State Border: Some notes from the Police Statistics for 2021 – 2024

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Analysing the problem of human trafficking, we guess it is necessary to have one more look at the problem but from another perspective. As we mentioned earlier, during the War, the number of crimes of illegal trafficking of persons across the state border of Ukraine increased drastically. At the same time, the number of THB crimes decreased. Moreover, the number of such crimes was not very impressive in the light of the official police statistics.

However, both mentioned types of crimes are strictly concerned with the state border. In the first case, trafficking of persons across the state border is a compulsory element of crime. In the second case, most persons in Ukraine are trafficked through the state border.

So, all perpetrators aim at the easiest points on the border to cross. They are looking for the most appropriate ‘assistants’ for their criminal activity, including corrupted officers from the Army and the State Border Guards Service. Demand generates supply: they do find such corrupted officers.

Therefore, the question arises: why the numbers of illegal trafficking of persons across the state border are so large as compared with the THB crimes?

One can argue that it is much easier to transport the unpretentious males who wish to be trafficked and who are not victims, as compared with mostly female victims of human trafficking. Such an argument should be considered with no doubt. However, it does not explain the difference in numbers in the mentioned above two types of crimes.

Probably, the answer lies around corruption on the border and minimisation of the risks of perpetrators being arrested. The answer could also be concerned with the more latent nature of THB crimes during the War.

In any case, if you can create the channel for transportation of males-perpetrators, you can use the same channel for trafficking of female victims of human trafficking.

Moreover, the police statistics indicate that the last year, more perpetrators avoided charges for illegal trafficking of males across the border.

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