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Recommendation 46
46
Acknowledged
Paragraph: 140
Include evidence-led prosecution guidance in Home Office, CPS, and College of Policing modern slavery materials.
Recommendation
The Home Office should include a section on evidence-led prosecutions in its modern slavery statutory guidance drawing on Article 27 (1) of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (ECAT). Similarly, the Crown Prosecution Service should amend its Guidance to Prosecutors on modern slavery and the College of Policing should include in its Authorised Professional Practice (APP) on modern slavery training content.
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140
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government · verbatim extract
Acknowledged
52. There is a concerted effort to enhance proficiency in ‘evidence-led’ investigations and it is always advised that investigators build a prosecution case gathering evidence from a range of sources, without solely relying on victim testimony. The requirement for ‘evidence led’ investigations is covered fully in the modern slavery investigator training course on the College of Policing curriculum and is tested on students in the case study exercise.
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