exploded the number of slaves in the world today. exploded the number of people that are trafficked. many of these people want to move from point a to point b. but what they don t sign up for is the rank exploitation, the abuse, the rape, the violence, the slavery that happens at point b. freeze! police, stay where you are. when it was all over, operation pentameter 2 became the biggest crackdown against international sex trafficking in british history. your hands, please. in all, british police rescued 164 victims and arrested 406 suspects. 67 people were charged with trafficking in human beings. operation pentameter 2 also supplied a successful template for stopping prostitution. in pentameter 2, may were able to engage all police offices nationwide. that s not something we can do here in america with the ease that they did.
time, it ll be a similar operation. a premises identified which we have established as being used as a brothel, which has been using girls who are very strongly suspected to be illegal immigrants who have been trafficked into the uk and have been kept for the purposes of prostitution and moved around the country to serve as uk brothels. fortunately when we did the warrants on the 4th of december, the person organizing the trafficking and arranging for the financial issues we missed. we have worked quite hard the last few months.
the police are now in a position to press serious charges. grace lim will be charged with the management of the brothel at taunton and wong will be jointly charged with two further traffic offenses. wong is liable as a principle of the worst slave offense. with the management of the brothel at taunton and wong will be charged with two further trafficking offenses. wong is liable as a principle of the worst slave offense. i feel quite strong about it. coming up police identify another person of interest involved in trafficking lilly. as far as trafficking is concerned, he is as bad as they get. but she loved it so much. i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but now she wants my recipe [ clears his throat ] [ softly ] she s right behind me isn t she? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup.
currency, about 6,000 in sterling, and she came across on a freight ship in a room with five others. she s ended up in london where she s got contacts through chinatown and she s told us that she s been moved around doing small odd jobs, doing cleaning, working in some restaurants and at the end of the week, when it s payday, they say well, your work hasn t been good enough, we re not going to pay you and they will move around to do some other manual work somewhere else. it s part of that chain which will then eventually force them into they ve got no option but to go into a life of prostitution. that s what s going to be what you re living while you re here in the uk. i didn t know trafficking, at that time. i didn t wake up one day and say oh, yeah, what am i going to do today, i m going to be prostitute. police! too often, we go in to a situation like a massage parlor and we find that women, girls, don t have their papers and we
the buyer then tried to bargain with the price. they said, $48,000 was too much. and asked her to reduce the price. she refused to reduce the price, so i was sold for $48,000. as more trafficked women confide in the police, the scale and horror of this modern day slave trade is being revealed. the devon and cornwall police identified a man the a the heart of lilly s ordeal. it looks more an more like this individual, gomart is the next one up the chain. moving the victim around the country and trafficking her, taking her to various brothels and delivering her to different places. if you listen to the victim, she was told she would be working in the restaurant trade. so, yeah, as far as trafficking is concerned, he is as bad as they get. he is also known by his alien, tu. tu is a driver who thinks the girls surrounding in brothels in