the border police chasing prostitutes who come to Sweden from countries outside the EU in order to reject them. The men and women who sell sex are often the victims of trafficking in human beings, but in the DN’s review, it turns out that, despite this rarely get the support they are entitled to before they quickly locked up and expelled from Sweden.
DN:s review has brought sharp criticism of the work of the police. Gabriella Kärnekull Wolfe sold sex at the age of 15 and is today one of the people behind the network #intedinhora which was launched in autumn 2017, in connection with the metoo-petition. The network is working to support the vulnerable, to disseminate information and raise awareness of the issues relating to prostitution. Gabriella Kärnekull Wolfe says that what transpires in the examination is very serious.
” I think it is absolutely terrible. The police treat victims as criminals, that they lock up the women and deny them to their home countries, ” she says, and continues:
– It is not legally certain.
there are many support activities, and also expertise within the police to deal with and help victims of human trafficking. To the border police locks in potential victims and then quickly reject them saying she can traumatize the most vulnerable and seriously damage their confidence in the police and society at large.
– If you send them back without securing a safe host by, for example, återvändarprogrammet, then we send them back to countries where their traffickers and pimps found them in the first place, ” says Gabriella Kärnekull Wolfe.
According to her, should the border police always plug in police work against prostitution and human trafficking in order to ensure that potential victims receive the help, even if they will then be expelled from Sweden.
– Prio one must still be investigating procuring and human trafficking are serious offences. It must be more important than to reject people.