Ministerial Task Force on (TIP) trains Mines Officers...in two-day course

Ministerial Task Force on (TIP) trains Mines Officers…in two-day course

Jun 20, 2018 News

Yesterday, the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking In Persons (TIP) started a two-day training course, for mines officers attached to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).
As Guyana intensifies its fight against Trafficking in Persons, the Ministry of Public Security through its (TIP) task force has initiated a two-day course to help mines officers attached to (GGMC) to develop their techniques in detecting and referring (TIP) cases in the interior of Guyana.

Facilitators and Participants of the two day training course pose for a photo.

Ministerial Task Force on (TIP) Coordinator (ag) Mr Oliver Profit officiated over the beginning of the two-day course, which he said, he hoped would furnish the mines officers with a better understand of how to differentiate between trafficking in persons cases compared to other crimes.
Foreign Service Officer, Mrs Lucresha Bryan-French, said that the present training is in addition to what the task force on (TIP) had already done with mines officers and other categories of persons including the media, police investigators and prosecutors.
Police statistics for 2014 to May 2018 reportedly show that there has been 308 cases of Trafficking In Persons.
Cases of Trafficking In Persons involving foreigners are becoming more prevalent in the bordering mining communities, hence the need for training of mines officers.
Guyana is presently listed as Tier Two on the US State Department for TIP which means the country has met the minimum standards for fighting TIP.
Mines officers will also be developing their ability to identify victims of TIP in their line of work and in general, understanding the nature of TIP in Guyana’s mining areas, the nature of inter-agency collaboration in fighting TIP and also learning the local dynamics of the crime, which are only some of the areas the two day workshop will be covering.