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Vietnamese cops drafted in to help snare Asian sex slave smugglers flooding Scotland

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Police have drafted in two ­Vietnamese officers to help them tackle a huge rise in modern slavery from the country.The move comes as latest figures released by the Home Office show a huge increase in the numbers of nationals from the ­south-east Asian country being smuggled into Scotland.Last year, 214 ­Vietnamese people – aged between 15 and 35 – were referred to the National Referral Mechanism, the system used to ­identify victims of modern slavery.

The figure was 66 the year before.Of all the nationalities trafficked into Scotland, including Chinese and Romanian, 338 were adults and 156 were children.The Home Office said 120 of the victims were being trafficked for labour exploitation, 24 for criminal reasons and 23 for sexual

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