The main objective of this project is to strengthen the
capacity of customs and migration personnel responsible for
detecting and preventing criminal activity utilizing the
airports and land border points of entry in the Dominican
Republic.
Specifically, the project will aim to provide the
participating customs and migration officers and other
government officials with the knowledge and skills to: more
effectively combat drug, human and other forms of illicit
trafficking; to improve their controls over the movement of
people and goods through the country’s airports and land
border crossings; and to more effectively coordinate with
each other, other law enforcement entities, and prosecutors.
Towards this end, the proposed course will utilize as
instructors numerous experts working in a range of aspects
of migration and customs controls, including: passenger and
behavioural screening, luggage and cargo screening, human
trafficking, and the detection of fraud involving travel,
identity and other documents. In addition, by bringing
together customs and migration officers the course will seek
to strengthen the inter-institutional and professional
relations among these two key stakeholder authorities, and
to promote increased and more effective cooperation and
information-sharing going forward.
The
event took place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
on April 12-16, 2010.
Program to Strengthen
Capacity of Law Enforcement Officials, Judges, and
Prosecutors to Identify and Combat
Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and
Children - in the Caribbean and in Central America
The Department of Public Security (DPS),
with funding from the Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA), will implement a training program to train
police and immigration officials as well as prosecutors and
judges, from the English-speaking Caribbean Member States as
well as in Central America,
in order to increase awareness and support the efforts of
law enforcement agencies in combating human trafficking.
In this regard, police and migration officers, prosecutors,
judges, and other law enforcement officers need to
understand the complexities involved in the investigation of
this crime. They need to comprehend the differences and
similarities between this crime and the smuggling of
migrants, the human rights dimension around this crime, the
utilization of special investigative techniques, how to
manage a trafficking crime scene, the protection of
witnesses and victims, how to properly interview victims,
and how to provide them comprehensive assistance, in
cooperation with local NGOs.
For this purpose, the Organization of American States,
through its Department of Public Security has designed a
train-the-trainers’ curricula comprised of eight
interrelated modules:
1. The Distinction Between Trafficking and Smuggling 2. The Human Rights Dimension of Trafficking in Persons 3. The Criminal Operative Investigation 4. Crime Scene Management and Operational Planning
5. Victim Identification, Assistance and Protection 6. Ethical Investigative Interviewing of Trafficked Victims
7. Child Trafficking 8. Immigration ‘Standard Operating Procedures’ of Entry and
Exit Control
The training curriculum includes a trainer’s manual (for use
by trainers who have some degree of theoretical knowledge of
the subject, as well as the skills necessary to deliver the
curriculum), a pocket-size booklet (for easy access to the
information), a training video, and awareness posters. This
will provide an increased sustainability to the program.
Among the program's objectives are: 1) to increase awareness
of the crime of trafficking among law enforcement; 2) to
strengthen the role of police, prosecutors’ offices and
courts in their capacity to implement laws to combat
trafficking; and 3) to increase the exchange of information,
and the establishment of networks, between agencies involved
in combating human trafficking in the Caribbean region.
The Department of Public Security expects to train at least
50 officials (police, prosecutors and judges) in each of the Member States.
Schedule trainings:
Belize, Belize City, March 22-23, 2010
Grenada, St George's, April 08-09, 2010
Suriname, Paramaribo, April 27-28, 2010
Saint Lucia, Castries, May 13-14, 2010
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Kingstown,
May 18-19, 2010
Costa Rica, San José, July 1-2, 2010
Dominica, Roseau, July 13-14, 2010
Panama, Panama City - August 4-5, 2010
San Salvador, El Salvador - August 25-26,
2010
Guatemala, Guatemala City - August 30-31,
2010
Barbados, Bridgetown - September 28-29, 2010
Trinidad & Tobago, Port-of-Spain - October 11
- 12, 2010
Training Program for Consular Personnel on the
Prevention and Protection of Victims of Trafficking in
Persons
The Department of
Public Security of the OAS has developed training seminars for
consular personnel in various OAS Member States in topics related to
the combat of trafficking in persons.
These seminars seek
to provide training and raise awareness on the necessity to prevent
trafficking in persons and to identify and assist victims of this
crime, as well as to foster the knowledge on gender and human rights
issues.
During these seminars the teaching is
focused on human rights, the international legal framework
on trafficking in persons, the global situation of
trafficking, the different types of exploitation, the
initiatives to combat human trafficking and other gender
issues, along with other topics such as the demand for and
creation of reference netwoks for victims of trafficking and
the identification and protection grantes by the consular
personnel.
Since 2008, the Seminars took place in the
following countries:
La Paz,
Bolivia - June 18-19, 2008
Quito, Ecuador
- July 16-17, 2008
Asuncion,
Paraguay - July 30-31, 2008
Managua,
Nicaragua - August 6-7, 2008
Tegucigalpa,
Honduras - August 12-13, 2008
Ciudad de
Guatemala, Guatemala - September 3-4, 2008
Lima, Peru -
February 4-5, 2009
Port-au-Prince,
Haiti - February 18-19, 2009
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
and Tobago - July 1-2, 2009
Kingston,
Jamaica - July 15-16, 2009
Training Program on the Prevention and
Protection of Victims of Trafficking in Persons
for the UN Peace-Keeping Forces
This program was developed by
the DPS and included the organization of 5 seminars with the
participation of 11 countries of the region:
Montevideo, Uruguay -
Pilot Seminar - March 10-11, 2008 This seminar trained
participants from Uruguay
Guatemala
City, Guatemala - May 13-14,
2008 This seminar trained participants from El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras and the Dominican Republic
Lima, Peru -
June 4-5, 2008 This seminar trained participants from Bolivia, Ecuador
and Peru
Santiago, Chile -
November 27-28, 2008 This seminar trained participants from
Chile
Buenos Aires, Argentina -
December 10-11,
2008 This seminar trained participants from Argentina and Paraguay
Montevideo, Uruguay - September 28-29, 2009
Buenos Aires, Argentina - October 1-2, 2009
These seminars are addressed to the personnel having participated or
participating in the United Nations peace-keeping missions, with the
objective to provide trainings and raise awareness in prevention,
identification and assistance to the victims of trafficking in
persons, as well as on gender and human rights issues.
The seminars were focused on human rights, the international legal
framework against trafficking in persons, the global situation of
trafficking in persons, the different types of exploitation, with
special attention paid to the specific context of peace-keeping
operations - codes of conduct, initiatives against trafficking in
persons; gender issues; ethics; cultural aspects of the missions;
specificities of conflict zones; identification of victims; demand
and creation of reference networks to assist victims of trafficking.
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