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AIC - HEUNI Webinar ‘Enhancing administrative data collection on modern slavery’ 10.12.2024

14.11.2024 | News item

We are pleased to invite you to webinar co-hosted by the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI) and the Australian institute of Criminology (AIC) that explores the need for accurate and timely data on human trafficking on 10th December 9.00-10.30 am (UTC +2) and 6-7.30 pm (UTC +11). To enhance the collation, dissemination and utility of these data, the Australian Institute of Criminology has recently established a state-of-the-art National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) as a central data repository on human trafficking and modern slavery in Australia.

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This webinar discusses: 

  • the impetus for creating a centralized data base in Australia
  • the nature and scope of data variables
  • the outcomes of the pilot phase, and
  • the pros and cons of having a centralized data set.

Target audience: Police, intelligence, policymakers, and researchers 

Tentative agenda (1.5 hours): 

- Welcoming words from the Directors of the Institutes (Natalia Ollus & Rick Brown)

- The National Minimum Data Set (NMDS): Development and early results (Samantha Bricknell)

- Australian Federal Police (AFP): The utility of the NMDS including increased understanding of how human trafficking presents in Australia and identifying opportunities for prevention, disruption, and additional victim-survivor support. (Luke Perritt)

- Finnish perspective/reflections (Project Manager Team Lead, Terhi Tafari · National Assistance System for Victims of Human Trafficking (Finland)

- Questions and comments

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Speakers: 

Detective Sergeant Luke Perritt is the Australian Federal Police (AFP) national human  team leader and is responsible for managing AFP’s strategic and policy directive for human trafficking, its human trafficking education programs, standards and practices, stakeholder engagement, statistics and reporting. Luke’s team also provides human trafficking domestic and international representation and assists the AFP’s International Command in human trafficking capacity uplift. Luke has worked across several crime types with the AFP since 2008, including sexual assault, child abuse, homicide, counter terrorism, and human trafficking. He has been the national human trafficking team leader since 2021.

Dr Samantha Bricknell is the Research Manager of the Australian Institute of Criminology’s (AIC) Statistical Collections team. Samantha has almost 20 years of experience in criminological research in the areas of human trafficking and modern slavery, homicide, family and domestic violence, deaths in custody and environmental crime. Samantha leads the development and enhancement of the AIC’s key data collections that have informed government and law enforcement responses to intimate partner and other family homicide, missing and murdered First Nations women and children, sex offending, and deaths in prison and police custody. From 2022, Samantha worked with key stakeholders, including the Australian Federal Police, to develop and pilot the Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery National Minimum Dataset. 

Ms. Terhi Tafari (LLM, BsocSc) works as a Team Leader and a Senior Adviser in the Finnish National Assistance System for Victims of Human Trafficking, dealing with both victim assistance as well as the Assistance System’s work as a national expert authority. In her 12 years in the Assistance System, Terhi has accumulated wide experience in victim assistance. She has conducted numerous trainings for both authorities and civil society, and has acted as a visiting lecturer in, for example, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Police University College and the Border and Coast Guard Academy. In 2023-2024 Terhi ran an EU-funded project concentrating on digital development and statistics production in the field of anti-trafficking. In the TILDA-project, she designed and supervised the creation of a data collection system for the Assistance System.

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