Note
"The present guide was developed on the basis of a Law Enforcement Guide which was produced for the Global Programme on Trafficking in Persons, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime."--P. 4.
"This Canadian Guide was produced under the direction of Yvon Dandurand, University College of the Fraser Valley, with the collaboration of Riikka Puttonen and Burkhard Dammann of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Global Programme on Trafficking in Persons, Dr. Curt Griffiths, Simon Fraser University, Bill Ard, Norm R. Massie and Claude Menard of “E” Division, Border Integrity Program, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Vivienne Chin and Eileen Skinnider of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, Dave Allen of the Vancouver Police Department, and the Department of Justice Canada."--Page 4.
Summary
Law enforcement agencies throughout the world face some difficult challenges in their attempts to prevent and control human trafficking. It is often difficult to identify and harder still to convict human traffickers. Human trafficking often goes unreported because victims are frightened to give evidence, may have been brutalized, are in need of care and assistance, and may sometimes have been mistaken for criminals themselves by some law enforcement agencies. The purpose of this short guide is to provide Canadian law enforcement officials with a reference tool to allow them to benefit from the experience of other law enforcement agencies working within the framework of the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (TOC Convention) and the protocols thereto, in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (hereafter referred to as the “Trafficking in Persons Protocol” and the “TOC Convention”) and the Protocol against Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea, and Air, (hereafter the “Smuggling of Migrants Protocol”). Canada became a party to these three international instruments on May 13, 2002, and it is therefore bound by the obligations they create.