On October 14, 2019, a simulation training to combat human trafficking started in the city of Karaganda.
The event was organized by the Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s Office in conjunction with the Karaganda Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan named after B. Beisenov, with the support of the OSCE Program Office in Nur Sultan, the US Embassy in Kazakhstan and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The main goal of the training is to improve the system of interagency response to specific situations of human trafficking in order to timely identify and provide assistance to victims, to hold perpetrators accountable.
Training will be held by law enforcement and government agencies, as well as non-governmental organizations. In total, more than 80 people take part in the training.
Nowadays, human trafficking is a form of profitable criminal business.
According to the global slavery index worldwide, nearly 40 million people are in slavery. Kazakhstan in 2017 was in 83rd place from 167 countries (75 thousand people).
Annually, more than a hundred people are saved from labor slavery in the country.
Since 2017, the internal affairs authorities have opened more than 250 criminal cases related to human trafficking. At risk, mainly women and children.
According to the FATF report, the illegal income from human trafficking annually in the world is about 150 billion US dollars.
The training will last until October 18, 2019.
Daily coverage of the event will be held on the official pages of the Law Enforcement Academy on the social networks Instagram (academy_gp.kz) and Facebook (academygp).
