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The National Prevention Toolkit

on Officer-Involved Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking

What Law Enforcement Officers Need to Know about Human Trafficking

Objectives

After completing this training, law enforcement officers will be able to do the following:

  • Understand essential facts about trafficking and its victims and perpetrators.
  • Identify the dynamics of labor trafficking and sex trafficking.
  • Utilize new skills in investigating the crime of trafficking.
  • Recognize the differences between trafficking and other crimes, such as domestic violence and prostitution.
  • Understand the impact of human trafficking on victims and exercise a trauma-informed approach to interacting with victims.
  • Know how to report human trafficking.

How to Navigate this Training

There are four sections in this training that will provide officers with crucial information about human trafficking. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen to click on and complete each section of the training.

  1. Crime Data
  2. The Crimes: Labor and Sex Trafficking
  3. Investigations
  4. Reporting and Resources

IF YOU RECEIVE A SCORE OF AT LEAST 80% ON THE QUIZ AT THE END OF THE TRAINING, YOU WILL RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF TRAINING FROM THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY VIOLENCE STUDIES AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Part 1

Crime Data

Part 2

The Crimes: Labor and Sex Trafficking

Part 3

Investigations

Part 4

Reporting and Resources

Quiz and Certificate

Please complete all parts to access quiz.

Sponsored by the

The Human Trafficking Project was supported by Award No. VF011 awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, Sponsored by the Institute for Family Violence Studies and the State of Florida.

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