UNITED KINGDOM
The Tablet
11 March 2014 13:02 by Liz Dodd
The head of London’s Metropolitan Police, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, will attend a forthcoming Vatican conference on human trafficking which will be chaired by Cardinal Vincent Nichols.
Nichols, the cardinal-archbishop of Westminster, told BBC News yesterday that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner would be one of at least 20 senior police officers from around the world to attend the event in Rome on 9-10 April.
The conference is the second international human trafficking conference to be hosted by the Vatican but will differ from 2012’s “academic” conference by focusing on ways to build practical links between the police and the Church, Nichols added.
He said that religious congregations could form an international “counter-network” to help tackle trafficking.
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