Trafficking of persons criminalised with severe custodial penalties and escalated sanctions for child victims and official involvement.

Trafficking is committed where, for the purpose of exploitation, a person recruits, transports, harbours, transfers or receives another by threats, force, abduction, fraud, abuse of power or inducement; exploitation includes sexual exploitation, slavery and similar practices, servitude, beggary and forced removal of organs, and the victim's consent is immaterial. The offence carries substantial terms of rigorous imprisonment and fines, with escalated penalties for multiple victims, child victims, repeat child trafficking and where a public servant or police officer is involved, including life imprisonment in specified circumstances.

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