Officials from National Police and Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration have received training aimed at equipping them with skills on identifying, investing and responding to cases of human trafficking.
The three day training took place at Top tower hotel in Kigali to help over fifty participants benefit from skills such as differentiation between internal and external trafficking, the human trafficking process, and offence of trafficking, human trafficking investigations and identification of human trafficking.
Participants acquired knowledge on protocol to prevent, suppress and punish human trafficking especially women and children.
They also gained skills on protection of victims of trafficking in person, cooperation and other measures of human trafficking.
Madame Agnes Igoye a facilitator from Uganda said the human trafficking is the recruitment, transporting transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of a threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation.
Superintendent Steven Rukumba, the director of training in Rwanda national police said human trafficking is a crime that all persons must cooperate in fighting against it.
The training was organized by a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in collaboration with International Organization for Migration.
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