Victorian man Glen Hulley is a former cop on a mission to stop child exploitation. Vision supplied.
A still from one of Glen Hulley's videos. Source: Facebook
A FOREIGN man stands with his arm around a young girl.
On another corner, a sex worker is waiting for a client. It's appears obvious what is going on — but proving it is another matter.
But helping stop child sex tourism and the illegal sex trade is exactly what Victorian policeman Glen Hulley packed up his life and moved to Southeast Asia for.
Some of the things the 39-year-old has already seen in this time has shocked him.
The father-of-two took up his new role with Terre Des Hommes Southeast Asia — a Dutch organisation aimed at supporting children through healthcare and child protection — earlier this month.
His job, heading up Project WATCH, sees him oversee 10 investigation and support teams based in locations deemed as 'hot spots' for travelling and expatriate child sex predators as well as high incidents local offenders in Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, India and Cambodia.
The donation funded, three-year project also sees him train and enhance the investigative skills and evidence gathering techniques of local private investigators and educators.
Recently his team filmed in a red light area in Indonesia as part of one its many surveillance operations.
Their footage shows very young sex workers on the hunt for work. There are also watchers on every corner and girls at the front of massage parlours and bars.
Some will likely be offering sex to the hundreds of foreigners who visit the area, but trying to stop it is a totally different matter.
In another clip, foreign men are seen walking the streets, one with his hand on what appears to be the back of a young sex worker.
The team will use this all information and pass it onto police.
Victorian man Glen Hulley is a former cop on a mission to stop child exploitation. Source: Supplied
In addition to collecting footage, Mr Hulley and his team also took part in a rescue raid assisting local police in busting a brothel which was illegally using underage and teenage girls.
The raid was a culmination of months of investigation by Project WATCH and then executed under a search warrant in cooperation with local police.
The Indonesian woman in the video, who owned the business, was charged with human trafficking and supplying child prostitution, and was recently sentenced to five years in prison by an Indonesian court.
"The children rescued ranged from 14 to 16 years old, and all are receiving counselling and rehabilitation via welfare support and education by one of our partner charity providers," Mr Hulley said.
For identification and security reasons, faces in the video remain blurred and the exact locations have not been specified.
While this footage may seem shocking, Mr Hulley said it was tame compared to other video his team have captured.
"It's very hard seeing some of the actual offending take place when we cannot intervene as we are not the police," he said.
"I have a monumental task ahead of me in dealing with language, cultural, legal and political challenges between five different countries plus dealing with multiple foreign embassies and international police in handling their citizens committing offences abroad.
"It is exhaustive so far but as the results are beginning to come. It is also extremely rewarding and the support I have received from both Australia and overseas in terms of donations, offers of resource assistance and messages of appreciation has been overwhelming."
Glen Hulley was visiting South-East Asia in July last year when he saw things that made him question his life comfortable life in Australia. Source: Supplied
Mr Hulley's job with Project WATCH, which pays him a tenth of what he earned in Australia,
may be enough to live off in South-East Asia, but he said it wasn't enough to ensure he could travel home to see his children and partner, so he created a gofundme page to help make that a reality.
The work is also dangerous.
"Corruption is a systemic problem in Southeast Asia and our activities disrupt a very complex crime system that involves kidnapping, slavery and prostitution," he said.
"The corrupt police do not wish to lose their secondary incomes, the local pimp gangs and organised crime groups don't want to lose their trade and local drug syndicates can mistake our investigators for anti narcotics agents."
Mr Hulley said the work was also challenging as cases of tourist and expatriates "grooming" victims and acting alone outside the services provided by gangs are often on the move, making it difficult to conduct any lengthy investigations.
But it's a challenge he is so far relishing.
"I am now currently conducting an intensive tour of each location and visiting with each of my investigation teams to assess their experience, knowledge, competencies and resources in order to develop a training package to roll out by early next year to begin building capacity in terms of effectiveness and the quality evidence gathering," he said.
"In the meantime I am mentoring the teams in case management, surveillance techniques, intelligence analysis and informer management as well as network building with community and government stakeholders in their areas."
Terre des Hommes conducts a surveillance operation from a red light area in Indonesia known for prostitution but also child prostitution. Footage supplied. Project WATCH assisted with on a massage parlour in Indonesia using 14 and 15 year old girls after it investigated it and then handed it over to police. Footage supplied.
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