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Written by Matipa Mwamuka
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010 12:46 |
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Victim support training for the Department of Social Development and South African Police Services in the Western Cape.
The STOP project was granted funding by the UNODC in September 2009 to build the capacity of SAPS and DSD with regards to victim support of victims of human trafficking. The two departments were identified as the main beneficiaries of the capacity building programme around the Western Cape Province as they would be the first point of contact with regards to assisting and referring a victim of human trafficking .
The training will involve building the capacity of inspectors, constables and victim support volunteers from SAPS police stations around the province in addition to social workers from each district of the Department of Social Development in the Western Cape. The training will empower the beneficiaries to understand the concept of human trafficking within a South African perspective as well as make the distinction between trafficking and other forms of exploitation which are often conflated as human trafficking.
The training will capacitate participants on how to identify a victim of trafficking , but most importantly how to practically assist a victim of trafficking without legislation in place and the existing constraints on victim assistance services. The training therefore aims to increase the participants knowledge on the subject and victim assistance with regards to victims of trafficking but most importantly it aims to lay the groundwork for the establishment of functional and effective referral systems, through rapid response task teams, which will consist of the trained participants in each district , area which has received training so as to expedite and centralise the referral of cases of human trafficking.
Below are the dates of the training session and the areas involved.
CAPE METRO
23-24 February 2010-
25-26 February 2010-
1-2 March 2010-
3-4 March 2010-
8-9 March 2010-
Cape Winelands District
10-11 March 2010
Overberg District
18-19 March 2010
Central Karoo District
28-29 April 2010
Garden Route District
3-4 May 2010
West Coast District
10-11 May 2010
12- 13 May 2010
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