Today, the second international simulation training on combating human trafficking was launched at the Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s office.
The training event was organized with the support of the OSCE Secretariat, the OSCE programme Office in Nur-Sultan, the U.S. Embassy and the Office of the UN High Commissioner.
It involves more than 70 specialists from the Prosecutor’s office, law enforcement agencies, labour inspections, NGOs, migration, border and social services from 17 OSCE member-states.
The opening ceremony was attended by representatives of state bodies, OSCE, diplomatic missions of Italy and Russia, as well as ambassadors of the Republic of Belarus, USA, Tajikistan, UN country offices.
Rector of the Academy Yergali Merzadinov noted the relevance of the training event in the context of strengthening the fight against threats and challenges of the modern world.
“Kazakhstan pays special attention to strengthening regional and international security. Human rrafficking has now acquired a cross-border character and is one of the problems with a high degree of public danger.
Close cooperation and systematic work of the authorized bodies of our countries, the creation of effective mechanisms for detecting crimes are necessary for successful counteraction of such facts.
I think that the joint development of situations close to real ones during the training, the development of common approaches to solving existing problems will contribute to improving the efficiency of work on the prevention and detection of such crimes,” the speaker said.
“The fact that we are conducting this exercise for the second time throughout the year shows the interest of OSCE member-states to work on improving the effectiveness of measures to combat human trafficking in a spirit of cooperation and partnership,” said the special representative of the OSCE office and the coordinator on combating human trafficking – Valiant Ricci.
The uniqueness of innovative training is that it provides for the modeling of measures to combat human trafficking with the participation of professional actors to create conditions as close as possible to the real.
By modeling specific cases of human trafficking, students learn to identify victims of crime, provide assistance to victims, identify persons involved in illegal traffic, and conduct investigations.
The event will last until June 28.
