Promoting Victim Engagement in Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Police Operations
Published March 2026
This report by Dr Laura Pajon underscores the central role of victim engagement to effectively protect victims and improve the investigation and prosecution of modern slavery offences across policing.
In collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University’s School of Law and Justice Studies, the project funded by the British Academy’s Innovation Fellowships scheme has brought together research, policy, and practice communities to identify the determinants of impact for successful victim engagement – providing clear, solution-focused guidelines and recommendations to activate victim engagement and prevent failures in victim safeguarding.