Nearly 100 women forced into prostitution in Scotland as sex traffickers evade travel ban
prostitution despite the lockdown restrictions.A senior police officer has told the Record that sex traffickers have remained a “significant threat” in the country during the pandemic.Police Scotland identified 84 sexually exploited victims in the past nine months but have warned the true scale of the problem will be much worse.Detective Superintendent Fil Capaldi, head of Police Scotland’s National Human Trafficking Unit said: “These are the ones we know of. There are more victims of trafficking out there that we don’t know.“People must understand this here and now.