Human Trafficking - A Strategic Framework Could Help Enhance the Interagency Collaboration Needed to Effectively Combat Trafficking Crimes
- Document number
- 1409
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Human Trafficking - A Strategic Framework Could Help Enhance the Interagency Collaboration Needed to Effectively Combat Trafficking Crimes
- Author/publisher
- United States Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Organized crime, Prosecution, Law Enforcement, Criminal justice, Judicial cooperation; National anti-trafficking measures; Criminalisation, Punishment, Crime prevention; Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships,
- Summary
- Since the enactment of the TVPA in 2000, federal investigative and prosecutorial agencieshave undertaken several key activities to combat trafficking in persons crimes, such as (1)investigating allegations of trafficking leading to 139 prosecutions; (2) providing training, outreach, and state and local initiatives to support investigations and prosecutions; and (3) addressing agency responsibilities by establishing special units and developing agency-level goals, plans, and strategies. As requested, to ascertain the status of U.S. efforts to investigate and prosecute trafficking crimes, this report discusses (1) key activities federal agencies have undertaken to combat trafficking in persons crimes, (2) federal efforts to coordinate investigations and prosecutions of trafficking in persons crimes and whether these efforts might be enhanced, and (3) how BJA supported federally funded state and local human trafficking task forces and whether these efforts might be improved. This review is part of a larger body of work we have conducted on U.S. efforts to combat trafficking in persons, here and abroad.
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