Why is human trafficking so difficult to combat?

Human trafficking involves a global criminal network with contact people in different strategic locations.

It requires a concentrated and coordinated yet long-term effort to tackle every part of such a network. It requires extended cooperation between the police forces in all countries. It also requires knowledge of how the networks operate, which necessitates extensive human resources within the police and willingness from a political aspect.

Very few trafficked persons want to witness against their traffickers, which might give the police concrete information to use in their investigations. Still, nobody dares to do so since there is no witness protection offered to trafficked persons witnessing against their traffickers. Trafficked have to consider the safety of their families. If the traffickers can’t punish ‘their property, they go after the families.