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A recent parliamentary report on modern slavery concluded that the practice “pervades every community” in the UK, and warned the number of victims could be in the tens or even hundreds of thousands.
Modern slavery was introduced as a single, specific offence under the Modern Slavery Act, which came into effect in March 2015.
Since then, West Mercia Police Police has recorded 119 instances, according to Home Office data up to the end of December last year.
Of the 103 cases that had been concluded by the time the data was released, two resulted in a suspect being charged.
That gives a charge rate of just two per cent.
