More than 2,000 Peel police officers will soon undergo hours of specialized training delivered by survivors of human trafficking, an effort to improve police capabilities to spot a crime that’s “very hard to detect.”
The program, touted by the service as the first of its kind in Canada at a Tuesday news conference, will see the entire complement of 2,200 front-line and investigative officers put through training developed in tandem with Timea Nagy, a survivor who was trafficked from Hungary to Canada about 24 years ago, and her organization,“Training like this can help survivors like me to shorten the time that we are trafficked and traumatized,” she said of the course, which features four hours of...
“I was trafficked all across Peel Region and the Toronto area,” Nagy told the gathering of reporters, activists, police and politicians, including Solicitor General of Ontario, Michael Kerzner and Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones. Over the years, Nagy has provided similar training to specialized human trafficking investigators and is pleased that it will now be offered to the entire force.
Following this, it can still take multiple attempts after human trafficking has been detected for a victim to leave the situation, he said.
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