Compendium on Best Practices On Anti Human Trafficking by Law Enforcement Agencies
- Document number
- 2369
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Compendium on Best Practices On Anti Human Trafficking by Law Enforcement Agencies
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Regional Office for South Asia
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Training Material/Resources,
- Keywords
- Organized crime, Prosecution, Law Enforcement, Criminal justice, Judicial cooperation; Victim-centred approach, National anti-trafficking measures; Criminalisation, Punishment, Crime prevention;
- Summary
- Trafficking of women and children is one of the grave organized crimes, extending beyond boundaries and jurisdictions. Combating and preventing human trafficking requires holistic approach by all stakeholders and integrated actions on prosecution, prevention and protection. Keeping this philosophy in mind, Project IND/S16 of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which is a joint initiative of UNODC and the Government of India, was launched in April 2006 in India. This project is focused on "Strengthening the law enforcement response in India against trafficking in persons, through training and capacity building". The major activities in the project are training of police officials and prosecutors, setting up Integrated Anti Human Trafficking Units, establishing networks among law enforcement agencies and civil society partners as well as developing appropriate tools including Protocols, Manuals, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Compendiums and other training aids. While carrying out anti human trafficking activities, several good initiatives undertaken by many police officials in the various states came to light. However, except for a few instances, such initiatives often remained undocumented and largely unrecognized. During the training sessions conducted by UNODC, the participants demonstrated a keen interest in collating and sharing such good initiatives so that they may serve as replicable models in similar situations. This document is an effort to record and acknowledge the positive actions undertaken by the state police officials in preventing and combating human trafficking. This Compendium has been compiled by Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi with the help of police agencies of various states. Although UNODC has made every effort to cross-check the information, the veracity of the factual details rests with the police agencies that have provided the case studies.
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