ABSTRACT Police officers are considered as key actors in responding to the illicit trade in people in Vietnam. Based on 150 surveys and 25 in-depth interviews with these officers in five provinces/cities and one ministerial agency, this study explores challenges in identifying victims of sex trafficking. This research determined some police-related obstacles to identification, including lack of priority for identification of victims, stigmatization of sex workers, ignorance of ethnic minorities’ immigration for work, low quality of training courses, weaknesses in foreign and ethnic minorities’ languages, and ineffectiveness of interagency cooperation. The purpose of underlining such problems is to confirm that police weakness may contribute to lowered number of identified victims of sex trafficking.

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警方未能查明为性剥削而贩运人口的受害者：越南的一项实证研究

摘要警察被认为是应对越南非法贸易的关键角色。基于对五个省市和一个部长级机构的官员进行的150次调查和25次深入访谈，本研究探讨了在确定性贩运受害者方面的挑战。这项研究确定了一些与警察相关的身份识别障碍，包括缺乏优先识别受害者的身份，对性工作者的污名化，对少数民族移民工作的无知，培训课程质量低下，外国和少数民族语言的弱点以及机构间合作无效。强调此类问题的目的是要确认警察的弱势可能会导致所查明的性贩运受害者人数减少。