{"id":24021,"date":"2019-06-10T12:53:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/?p=24021"},"modified":"2019-06-10T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:53:35","slug":"more-than-100-cases-of-modern-slavery-recorded-in-west-mercia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/more-than-100-cases-of-modern-slavery-recorded-in-west-mercia\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 cases of modern slavery recorded in West Mercia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShropShire Star. United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>A recent parliamentary report on modern slavery concluded that the practice \u201cpervades every community&#8221; in the UK, and warned the number of victims could be in the tens or even hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Modern slavery was introduced as a single, specific offence under the Modern Slavery Act, which came into effect in March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, West Mercia Police Police has recorded 119 instances, according to Home Office data up to the end of December last year.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 103 cases that had been concluded by the time the data was released, two resulted in a suspect being charged.<\/p>\n<p>That gives a charge rate of just two per cent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/crime\/2019\/06\/10\/more-than-100-cases-of-modern-slavery-recorded-in-west-mercia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShropShire Star. United Kingdom. A recent parliamentary report on modern slavery concluded that the practice \u201cpervades every community&#8221; 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[166,167,660,856,857,909,1029,1264,1357,1659,2290,2291,3531,3614,3670],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24025,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24021\/revisions\/24025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}