Crime in Kuwait

Kuwaiti police vehicles and police station

There is a low rate of crime in Kuwait.[1] Incidents of violent crime against foreign citizens are extremely uncommon.[2] The country is a destination point for men and women who migrate legally from South and Southeast Asia for domestic or low-skilled labor. People from South Asian countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and Southeast Asian nations like the Philippines are trafficked into Kuwait.[3] Kuwait along with Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia is in Tier 4 rank which has greater wealth, but a worse human trafficking situation.[4]

  1. ^ Kuwait Archived 2013-02-16 at the Wayback Machine United States Department of State
  2. ^ Kuwait Archived 2008-09-02 at the Wayback Machine Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  3. ^ Arch Puddington; Aili Piano; Camille Eiss (2007). Freedom in the World. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-7425-5897-7.
  4. ^ Dina Siegel; J M Nelen; Hans Nelen (2007). Organized Crime: Culture, Markets and Policies. Springer. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-387-74732-3.