Answer by DK Govnmt Mar 2011 on witness protection

The Legal Affairs Committee 2010-11REU ordinary part, final answer to Question no. 399PublicMinistry of JusticeCivil and Police DepartmentFolketingetThe Legal Affairs CommitteeChristiansborg1240 Copenhagen KDate: 30 March 2011Office: Police officeCase no.: 2011-150-2105Doc.: LBN43908We forward herewith the answer to Question no. 399 (ordinary part) that the Danish Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee submitted to the Minister for Justice on 30 November 2010.The question was asked at the request of Line Barfod (The Unity List – the Red-Green Alliance).Lars BarfoedCarsten Kristian VollmerSlotsholmsgade 101216 Copenhagen K.Telephone 7226 8400Fax 3393 3510www.justitsministeriet.dkjm@jm.dkQuestion no. 399 (ordinary part) from the Danish Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee:“Have the Danish authorities provided a witness and/or his/her family with protection in one or more cases involving human trafficking?”Answer:We would refer you to the answer to Question no. 398 (ordinary part) forwarded on the same date to the Danish Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee regarding the various measures that the police and the Danish Civil Security Service can implement in order to protect witnesses.The National Commission of the Danish Police is not in possession of statistical data that can illustrate the application of such measures in any detail.It should be noted, particularly where measures to protect witnesses that can be implemented by the Danish Civil Security Service are concerned, on grounds of principle and for the sake of the people who are being protected, that the service cannot provide information about the number of people who are being protected under such measures or about the reasons why, in the given case, it has been necessary to effect these measures.