Operation Ruby Hits Human Trafficking Gang

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Operation Ruby Hits Human Trafficking Gang

An operation co-ordinated by Northants Police saw 200 staff from nine different organisations hit the UK's largest trafficking gang.

Date - 18th November 2008
By - Northamptonshire Police

A major operation – believed to be the largest of its kind ever mounted in the UK - has been carried out this morning to disrupt an organised crime group thought to be trafficking people into the UK for the purposes of labour exploitation. More...

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