People who have been trafficked for the purpose of begging or committing petty crimes may:

• Be children, elderly persons or disabled migrants who tend to beg in public places and on public transport
• Be children carrying and/or selling illicit drugs
• Have physical impairments that appear to be the result of mutilation
• Be children of the same nationality or ethnicity who move in large groups with only a few adults
• Be unaccompanied minors who have been “found” by an adult of the same nationality or ethnicity
• Move in groups while travelling on public transport: for example, they may walk up and down the length of trains
• Participate in the activities of organized criminal gangs
• Be part of large groups of children who have the same adult guardian
• Be punished if they do not collect or steal enough
• Live with members of their gang
• Travel with members of their gang to the country of destination
• Live, as gang members, with adults who are not their parents
• Move daily in large groups and over considerable distances

The following might also indicate that people have been trafficked for begging or for committing petty crimes:

• New forms of gang-related crime appear
• There is evidence that the group of suspected victims has moved, over a period of time, through a number of countries
• There is evidence that suspected victims have been involved in begging or in committing petty crimes in another country