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SUBJECT: PART I OF III: Seventh Annual Anti-Trafficking Report - 
Czech Republic 
 
Ref: 06 STATE 202745 
 
¶1. (U) Sensitive But Unclassified entire text; not for internet 
distribution. 
 
¶2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Throughout the course of 2006, the Czech 
Government continued to improve its capabilities and methods to 
combat trafficking in persons. GOCR political will to fight 
trafficking remained strong. This was reflected statistically though 
numbers of arrests and convictions of traffickers and a greater 
focus on forced labor. The Czech Government continued its aggressive 
and wide-ranging educational campaign to assist in the prevention of 
trafficking, the identification and support of victims, the 
dismantling of the criminal networks involved and the prosecution of 
traffickers. 
 
The government moved decisively to combat labor trafficking. In the 
spring, the police created a new forced labor section within the 
trafficking in persons department of the Organized Crime Unit. The 
section is comprised of eleven investigators and a section head that 
are focused solely on investigating labor trafficking cases. The 
national police are also in the process of identifying specific 
officers at the regional level that will function as local liaisons 
to the forced labor section. The new unit cooperates closely with 
local police, NGOs, Labor Offices and Labor Inspectorates. The 
creation of a police unit solely focused on forced labor is unique 
in the region and reflects the Czechs' commitment to addressing the 
problem. The section is currently investigating several large labor 
trafficking organized crime syndicates and is working closely with 
third country police forces in the region to bring the traffickers 
to justice. 
 
In an effort to stem labor trafficking at its source, the Ministry 
of Labor and Social Affairs in cooperation with the Ministry of 
Interior introduced a pilot project that provides government-funding 
to two NGOs (Caritas and IOM) in Ukraine (the source country of a 
majority of legal and illegal workers as well as trafficking 
victims). These NGOs assist in providing information to Ukrainian 
citizens on work opportunities in the Czech Republic and serve as de 
facto labor brokers free of charge in 10 of the largest cities 
located throughout Ukraine that are known as principle source 
locations for trafficking victims. The goal of the project is to 
eliminate the need for intermediaries and brokers that frequently 
resort to illegal and extortive practices. 
 
In January 2007, the Ministry of Interior announced that as a result 
of passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1718, the Czech 
government is eliminating a program that provided DPRK citizens work 
opportunities in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic was the 
first country to eliminate its program for DPRK workers in the wake 
of UNSCR 1718. The 408 DPRK laborers in the country at the start of 
the year, almost exclusively female and mainly working as 
seamstresses in factories throughout the country, will all leave the 
country by the end of 2007 when their work visas and work permits 
expire. The Czech Government has been diligent over the past year in 
investigating the situation in each factory that employed North 
Korean laborers and local labor inspectors had conducted dozens of 
inspections on their various work locations. 
 
The results of two large government-funded NGO research projects 
helped significantly in strengthening intergovernmental and NGO 
cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Prior to 
these reports, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs had not been 
actively involved in the area of labor trafficking. These reports 
documented the involvement of sophisticated organized crime 
syndicates in the forced labor trade. These studies initiated 
greater involvement of local Labor Offices and Labor Inspectorates 
and additionally helped to inform the public about this phenomenon. 
 
Several revisions in Czech law were introduced in 2006 mainly 
focusing on social services and social-legal protection of children. 
The most significant change was an amendment to the law on 
residency/stay of foreigners that introduced a new allowance for 
long-term residence, which can lead to permanent residence, for 
protective reasons. This new law, which came into force in June 
20Q, significantly improves the status of trafficking victims in 
that it now assigns to the Asylum and Migration Office within the 
Ministry of Interior the role of granting long-term stay for 
protective reasons. The law has already been applied once to grant 
long-term residency to a female Ukrainian trafficking victim. This 
law also codifies the practice of allowing a trafficking victim 30 
 
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days to decide whether he/she wishes to cooperate with the police 
and enter the Program of Assistance and Protection of Victims or 
whether she/he will return home. The law forbids any possible 
deportation from the country during this 30-day period. 
 
NGOs praise governmental and police efforts to provide consistent 
close coordination on trafficking issues. NGOs, police and 
government officials credit regular outreach meetings with providing 
every organization an opportunity to learn from the best practices 
of each other and to alter anti-trafficking campaigns and 
investigations to address new issues as they arise. 
 
 
There were no efforts in 2006 to legalize prostitution but works on 
recodification of the Czech Penal Code continued. The new Penal Code 
should include the criminal liability of corporations which would 
allow the Czech Republic to ratify the UN Convention on Organized 
Crime. The Ministry of Interior has also indicated it hopes 
legislation will be introduced over the coming year that would 
broaden the definition of disorderly conduct to include street 
prostitution. The first two convictions under the new law would be 
misdemeanors but a third conviction would be a felony punishable by 
up to 2 years in jail. 
 
Law enforcement had several major successes during 2006. The Czech 
police in September 2006 broke up one of the largest local 
trafficking syndicates that trafficked numerous young Czech and 
Slovak Romani girls to Norway for sexual exploitation. The police 
arrested 16 individuals for trafficking and pimping and more than 
160 Czech police were involved in the investigation and sting 
operation. The police also broke up a Vietnamese trafficking 
organization that was active in the Czech Republic and Germany. The 
police arrested 6 offenders for pimping and trafficking in persons. 
The success of the police to break up this organized crime syndicate 
is notable given the fact that the traffickers, victims and clients 
are exclusively Vietnamese making such criminal organizations 
extremely difficult to infiltrate. 
 
Because of the complexity of the trafficking statute many 
traffickers are charged with pimping. During 2006 police 
investigated 14 offenders and arrested 15 individuals for 
trafficking in multiple cases. Two criminals were convicted for 
trafficking in persons, one under the new trafficking law and one 
under the old law, and for the first time two other criminals were 
convicted under the child trafficking statute.  None of the four 
offenders convicted of trafficking received unconditional sentences; 
all 4 received suspended sentences. During the same time frame 88 
persons (many of them traffickers) were charged with pimping, with 
68 convictions resulting. Twelve of the criminals charged with 
pimping were sentenced to jail time, while seven others were forced 
to pay fines. The remainder received suspended sentences. 
Additionally in January 2007, Czech courts sentenced two Germans who 
had sexually molested multiple young Czech boys to 5 years and 3 
years in jail for inducement of minors for sexual intercourse. An 
additional 16 individuals were convicted under the same statute in 
¶2006. Individuals not charged specifically with trafficking were 
also charged with other offenses such as pimping, conspiracy, denial 
or personal liberty, rape, etc. 
 
¶3. (SBU) Post responses are keyed to questions posed reftel. 
 
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Overview (ref. Para 27 SECSTATE 202745) 
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A) The Czech Republic is a transit and destination country, and to a 
lesser degree a source country, for trafficking in persons (TIP) 
mainly for the purposes of sexual exploitation. Some victims are 
trafficked internally from areas of high unemployment to Prague and 
the border regions with Germany and Austria. Sources of information 
on trafficking include: the Ministries of Interior, Justice, Labor 
and Social Affairs, Health, and Education, State Police, as well as 
several NGOs. Although there are no reliable statistics or estimates 
available from either the Czech Government or from local NGOs of the 
number of trafficking victims currently in the country, it is 
broadly accepted that both sex trafficking and forced labor are 
problematic issues in the Czech Republic. The Czech Government 
conducts continuous research on the scope of the trafficking problem 
in the Czech Republic. 
 
Czech women between the ages of 18-29 with secondary or lower 
 
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educations from regions of high unemployment are at greatest risk of 
falling victim to sex traffickers. Women who have previously worked 
as prostitutes are particularly vulnerable to exploitation. Roma 
women are at the highest risk to be trafficked internally and 
abroad. Czech labor trafficking victims are men and women spread 
across a much wider age spectrum, but also likely to have relatively 
little education and to be drawn from high-unemployment regions of 
the country. According to IOM research conducted in 2005 for the 
Czech Government, foreign labor trafficking victims in the Czech 
Republic are relatively evenly divided between men and woman and 
come to the country from a variety of source countries such as 
countries in the former Soviet Union, Vietnam and China. They also 
tend to be much more widely dispersed in terms of age than sex 
trafficking victims. The Czech Republic is also a transit country 
for labor trafficking victims to other European Union member states. 
 
 
B) In 2006, the Czech Government's political will and adaptability 
in the battle against trafficking remained strong. Sex trafficking 
trends in the Czech Republic remained broadly static according to 
Interior Ministry and NGO sources. The police continue to work 
closely with other countries to monitor larger trends of trafficking 
and improve methods in combating organized criminal groups. Labor 
trafficking emerged as an area of increased focus for the Czech 
Government in 2006. The rapid growth of the Czech economy has 
attracted the attention of trafficking syndicates. Two 
government-sponsored studies by the International Organization of 
Migration (IOM) and Intermundia in 2005 provided for the first time 
a systemic analysis of the scope of the problem and a strong impetus 
to combat it. The integration of solid sociological research has 
helped the Interior Ministry reach a clearer understanding of both 
the scope and modus operendi of labor traffickers. The Czech 
Government has responded to these studies by initiating discussions 
with the Justice Ministry to develop clearer internal legal 
guidelines to facilitate prosecution of labor traffickers and by 
examining methods of strengthening the authorized manpower of the 
Organized Crime Unit to deal specifically with the problem of labor 
trafficking. The police also reacted by creating a specialized 
section within the trafficking in persos department of the 
Organized Crime Unit made upof eleven investigators to fight labor 
traffickig. Based on the concluions of these studies the Ministry 
of Labor and Social Affairs also became actively involved in 
combating labor trafficking. Responding to allegations that North 
Korean workers in the Czech Republic were victims of state sponsored 
forced labor, the Labor Ministry n cooperation with local labor 
inspectors took a leading role in inspecting the working environment 
of the North Korean laborers and forwarded all pertinent information 
to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry ofInterior. As a 
result, the Czech Republic decided in mid 2006 froze new visas and 
work permits for North Korean workers, prior to a January 2007 
announcement that the entire program was being phased out. 
 
Although the majority of women trafficked into the Czech Republic 
for sexual exploitation are from the former Soviet Union, mainly 
from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, there is also a large 
number of victims from Slovakia, Bulgaria, Vietnam and the former 
Yugoslavia. The long-term trend is cooperation of international 
criminal groups with local citizens in their home countries. Czech 
women are primarily trafficked into Western Europe (primarily 
Germany, Austria and the Netherlands) to work as prostitutes, but 
last year there were also several cases of organized street 
prostitution of Czech women in Scandinavian countries. According to 
information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a small number of 
Czechs were trafficked in the past to the United States. Most of 
these victims were men trafficked to the U.S. for coerced labor. 
Foreign and Czech women are also trafficked within the country, 
sometimes being sold from one organized trafficking unit to another. 
Since entry into the European Union, NGOs estimated that nearly all 
trafficking victims enter the country legally with valid tourist 
visas. This held true for both forced labor and sex trafficking. 
Trafficking for sexual exploitation and organized prostitution is 
mainly organized by Russian speaking and Bulgarian organized 
criminal groups that are active throughout the entire country but 
mainly focused in Northern and Western Bohemia, Southern Moravia and 
Prague. Trafficking in Vietnamese and Chinese individuals is 
organized by Vietnamese and Chinese nationals. Vietnamese and 
Chinese prostitutes and forced laborers are exploited by fellow 
Chinese and Vietnamese nationals which makes these cases difficult 
to investigate. 
 
C) Although the Czech Government's political will to combat 
 
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trafficking in persons remains strong and the fight against 
trafficking is a major priority, Czech anti-trafficking efforts were 
somewhat hampered by limited prosecutorial resources. There were 
also some unproven allegations of corruption among individual 
officers in the Alien and Border Police as well as the local police. 
As recommended in different studies and the government's own 
"National Strategy for the Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings 
2005-7" the Organized Crime Unit (UOUZ), the main police unit 
battling trafficking, was empowered to create a new specialized 
police unit expressly focused on combating forced labor. The unit 
was also provided necessary equipment from the 2005 EU twinning 
program. The Ministry of Interior also translated into Czech for the 
use of the police a new ILO manual entitled "Forced Labor 
Trafficking - How to Monitor Recruitment of Working Migrants". The 
manual will also be widely distributed within the government and to 
NGOs in order to facilitate a better understanding of the labor 
trafficking issue. With the 2004 accession of the Czech Republic to 
the EU, all land border customs stations were closed complicating 
the detection of traffickers entering the country (the Czech 
Republic is completely surrounded by fellow EU members). 
 
D) The Czech Government aggressively and carefully scrutinizes its 
anti-trafficking campaign. The Czech Interior Ministry works closely 
with other government ministries, NGOs, multilateral bodies, and 
foreign police and government partners to improve its efforts. They 
encourage a frank and ongoing dialogue in this area, and the 
Government routinely publishes extensive information relating to all 
aspects of its anti-trafficking effort. Czech authorities have been 
admirably cooperative and transparent in their dealings with Post on 
this issue; they have been willing to share best practices and to 
seek assistance in areas where they feel they lack sufficient 
experience or expertise. 
 
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PREVENTION (ref Para 28 SECSTATE 202745) 
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A) The government acknowledges that trafficking is a problem. 
 
B) Government agencies most directly involved in anti-trafficking 
efforts are:  the Alien and Border Police, the Organized Crime 
Investigation Unit of the State Police (UOOZ), the Crime Prevention 
Department of the Ministry of Interior, the Security Policy 
Department of the Ministry of Interior, the Asylum and Migration 
Department of the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs. The Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, and Ministry 
of Labor and Social Affairs also play a role in prevention efforts 
and victim assistance. The Interior Ministry is the lead agency for 
implementation of the National Strategy Against Trafficking in 
Persons 
 
C) The Czech Government has a multi-faceted education campaign to 
combat trafficking within the country. 
 
To facilitate its demand reduction campaign, in 2006 the Interior 
Ministry funded a pilot project focused on demand reduction for 
sexual services by addressing clients. NGOs estimate that more than 
two-thirds of all clients of prostitution (trafficked and others) in 
the Czech Republic are foreigners. The majority of clients are 
Germans, followed by Austrians, Brits and Americans. Germans and 
Austrians frequently visit border regions and British and American 
citizens mainly frequent sex clubs in Prague. Possible clients were 
informed about the trafficking phenomenon and forced prostitution 
through a newly created web page (http://www.rekni-to.cz/ available 
in German), telephone hotlines and through pamphlets and other 
materials. The clients were able to find out how to safely and 
anonymously report suspicions of trafficking victims. The campaign 
was organized by IOM in Southern Bohemia and Moravian border regions 
and in cooperation with La Strada and Czech Caritas. These NGOs also 
jointly created in June a new campaign called "Spolu Proti Obchodu s 
Lidmi" ("Together Against Trafficking in Persons") to collect as 
much data about clients as possible. After an initial reluctance of 
clients to participate in the study, the researchers were able to 
gather usable data from multiple sources. The focus of the research 
was to determine not only the motivations of the clients, but also 
to assess the ability and willingness of foreign clients to 
recognize and report possible sex trafficking victims. The follow-up 
campaign offered ways to do so and raised awareness not only among 
Czech clients but also among German and Austrian clients in the 
border regions and British and American citizens in Prague. The 
campaign was conducted in Czech, German and English and will 
 
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continue through 2007. 
 
The Interior Ministry also sponsored roundtable working groups in 
five high-risk regions (Ostrava, Olomouc, Litomerice, Ceske 
Budejovice and Znojmo) with NGOs, charitable organizations, police, 
social workers, and other parties. These conferences were originally 
funded under the auspices of the PHARE 2003 twinning project in 
coordination with assigned British and Dutch officials. The earlier 
programs were extremely well received at the local levels so the 
government decided to continue funding the roundtables at their own 
expense. 
 
In Cheb, the Government continued to support activities of its 
specialized police team, "Eger", as well as worked closely with Roma 
police assistants. In addition, two projects were organized within 
the framework of a trilateral Czech-German-Polish working group. 
These projects focused on the creation and distribution of 
informative leaflets warning against sex tourism. The local 
government and police force also continued close cooperation with 
several local NGOs. One such example of successful cooperation is 
coordination with the German NGO EJF-Lazarus (evangelic social 
services to youth) that provides care for criminal delinquent 
children and youth all over Germany. EJF-Lazarus opened a 
specialized center in Cheb named "Utociste" that is focused on 
high-risk children, usually runaways with psychological problems. 
The Cheb police developed a new "case management" system: a holistic 
approach focused on working with specific youth and children that 
are high-risk. The system requires the close cooperation of the 
police and other social-legal institutions such as children 
protective services, doctors, probation and mediation services as 
well as counseling centers. This best practice has been adopted by 
police in other regions. 
 
The Foreign Ministry continued its anti-trafficking education 
programs, and provided trafficking information to visa applicants 
from common source countries for trafficking victims into the Czech 
Republic. The leaflets are targeted towards individuals traveling to 
the Czech Republic to look for work, highlighting the risks of 
working abroad and ways to reduce the risk of being trafficked. The 
leaflets provide contact information for NGOs and other 
organizations in case of necessity and are distributed by Czech NGOs 
and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Czech Embassies and 
Consulates abroad. The leaflets were unveiled during a regional 
conference for foreign and border police which focused on 
identification of victims of trafficking at borders. The conference 
took place in Prague in May 2006 and was organized jointly with 
UNDCP. 
 
In order to assist Czech consular officials in identifying victims 
of trafficking, the Ministry of Interior has assigned officers with 
specialized experience to Czech Embassies in six countries of 
concern (China, Belarus, Egypt, Mongolia, Ukraine and Vietnam). 
These six countries were also chosen due to the high number of 
individuals from them claiming asylum upon arrival in the Czech 
Republic. Due to the growing number of visa applicants in Ukraine, 
the Czech government opened a new consulate focused primarily on 
visa adjudication. The Foreign Ministry also provided its consular 
officers specialized training sponsored by the Interior Ministry to 
assist in the identification of potential victims. The Foreign 
Ministry completed and distributed its instructional manual on 
trafficking for its consular staff. 
 
The Interior Ministry prepared a trafficking educational training 
program for local officials that took place in April 2006. The 
ministry also continues to share the information with communities 
through its website. The ministry plans to further build on this 
program in close cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Social 
Affairs by providing training for representatives of local/municipal 
governments (social departments, Roma coordinators, etc.) on the 
issue of trafficking in human beings. The educational outreach 
activities are planned to take place during the second quarter of 
¶2007. 
 
The Refugee Center Administration of the Ministry of Interior 
continued an awareness campaign among female applicants for 
political asylum, informing them of the risk of trafficking and 
sexual exploitation. The admissions centers employ a social worker 
specializing in at-risk groups to counsel the women. 
 
D) The Ministry of Education sponsors several programs to prevent 
the victimization of students. Although the programs encompass both 
 
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primary and secondary schools, a major point of emphasis is a 
program designed for 9th grade students and older (about 15 years of 
age) who are interested in overseas jobs. The programs are designed 
to warn students of the risks or trafficking and to provide contact 
information to them in case of victimization. 
 
The Education Ministry included anti-trafficking materials 
(especially focused on issue of commercial sexual exploitation of 
children) in its training for school teachers. This training is 
provided by the National Institute for Further Education, 
pedagogical centers, Institute of Pedagogical Psychological 
Counseling as well as universities training new teachers ensuring 
that all current and future teachers will be taught to pass on to 
their students the dangers of trafficking. The ministry is also 
working on creating a specialized trafficking program for school 
counselors that is currently being tested at Charles University in 
Prague. 
 
The Ministry of Health in conjunction with the third medical faculty 
of Charles University and the NGO Ruzova Linka organized seminars 
for medical personnel, social workers and psychology students. These 
seminars are focused on prevention, timely detection, intervention 
and assistance to sexually exploited children. This training is part 
of post-gradual studies but is also offered to all bachelor degree 
students. The primary aim of the program is to make this training an 
integral part of study at all medical universities. 
 
The Third Medical Faculty of Charles University conducted research 
that raised the awareness of children being exploited for commercial 
purposes. The 2006 research was conducted over five years from 2001 
- 2006 at secondary schools in Prague and in Cheb. Approximately 
1200 students were asked whether they had ever had sex in exchange 
for money. The research showed that 3.6% of girls and 1.8% of boys 
had previously had sex for money. One fourth of female participants 
admitted that they could imagine earning money through prostitution 
if their life situation became difficult. When asked the same 
question, one third of male participants also answered 
affirmatively. 
 
E) The Government works hand-in-hand with three main NGOs: Caritas, 
La Strada, and Rozkos Bez Rizika (Pleasure Without Risk). Caritas 
works in schools and asylum and reception centers to conduct 
awareness campaigns among potential trafficking victims about the 
risks of trafficking and the entrapment and coercion strategies used 
by traffickers and to assist trafficking victims. La Strada focuses 
upon advocacy, victims' assistance, and prevention programs. 
Although both La Strada and Caritas both can provide short-term 
crisis intervention, Caritas tends to focus upon providing 
longer-term care and support, while La Strada specializes in 
immediate intervention. Rozkos Bez Rizika works primarily with women 
in the sex trade. All three NGOs play important roles in the 
Government's "Program of Support and Protection of the Victims of 
Trafficking in Persons". These NGOs praise governmental and police 
efforts to provide consistent close coordination on trafficking 
issues. 
 
F) The Government carefully monitors migration policies and 
statistics for evidence of trafficking, and it works with 
international organizations and NGOs to gather information on 
immigration and trafficking patterns. In 2005, the International 
Organization for Migration and Intermundia both conducted 
government-sponsored studies that revealed that labor trafficking 
was a more prevalent and organized problem than was previously 
thought. In June 2006, La Strada published a report on Trafficking 
in Human Beings for forced labor and labor exploitation. The report 
is a part of an international research project on forced labor 
trafficking funded by the AGIS Program of the European Commission. 
The project funded research in the Czech Republic, Great Britain, 
Portugal and Ireland. In order to enhance dissemination and 
discussion of the results among experts La Strada organized 
roundtables which aimed to identify recommendations for improvement 
of the present situation. Participants in the discussions included 
representatives of different government ministries, trade unions, 
police, prosecutors, international organizations, embassies and 
NGOs. 
 
The Interior Ministry, in conjunction with other agencies, evaluated 
the results of the four year Program of Support and Protection of 
Trafficking Victims which ended in 2005. The Government asked two 
institutes to evaluate the results. The Demographic Information 
Center focused on an evaluation of the results of the Program and 
 
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the Government Institute of Criminology and Social Prevention 
analyzed motivational factors that influenced the victim's decision 
to enter the Program. Their conclusions helped the Government to 
identify specific priorities for 2007 activities. 
 
These studies provided detailed information regarding trafficking 
victims. The Government evaluated information such as states of 
origin, means of recruitment, age, sex, nationality, education and 
family situation, number of children of the victim, first 
institution contacted, length of stay in the program and final 
status of the victim. The studies found that about half of victims 
who entered the program were younger than 25 and one third were over 
¶30. Most often victims were Ukrainians and Bulgarians, Czech, 
Vietnamese and Slovaks. Other victims were from Lithuania, 
Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia and Kyrgyzstan. The time spent 
in the program varied from one to 611 days but the average was 22 
days. This number doesn't include time the victims spent at common 
care of local NGOs. The studies found that older victims, 
specifically those with children, spent more time in the program. 
The time spent in the program also depended on nationality. 
Vietnamese and Ukrainians stayed longer than Bulgarians who usually 
stayed only a very short time. Over 70 percent of all victims who 
entered the program had their first contact with the police, thereby 
showing the effectiveness of police training. 
 
In 2006, the Ministry of Interior also contracted with Ivan Gabal 
Analysis and Consulting, an independent and well respected 
organization, to conduct another study on labor trafficking. The end 
report, "Combating Trafficking in Persons in the Czech Republic and 
Possibilities for the Optimization of State Security Policy", 
divided the problem of forced labor into several phases 
(recruitment, migration, obtaining residency and accommodation, 
trafficking of the individual and the proceeds of forced labor). For 
each phase problems were identified and some solutions were 
suggested. 
 
At the end of 2006, IOM completed an additional study entitle 
"Analysis of Offers of Job Intermediation in the Czech Republic that 
Appeared in Russian Speaking Newspapers in the Czech Republic". This 
analysis helped explain the recruiting process by labor brokers and 
means of brokers to obtain tourist visas for illegal workers. As a 
result of the study, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in 
cooperation with the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs have reached several conclusions on how to simplify access 
of foreigners from third countries to the Czech labor market. 
Several minor changes to government regulations have already been 
implemented but more changes will be forthcoming in 2007.