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Human trafficking is not the first thing you might think about as a policing issue, but it occurs everywhere. In this episode Dr’s Gibbs and Strohacker from Penn State Harrisburg discuss their research that indicates training is imperative for street-level officers to recognize human trafficking.

Main Topics

•While human trafficking is portrayed in a sensational manner in entertainment media, officers are really navigating more nuanced situations, ambiguous situations.
•A survey of police officers from a large agency in Pennsylvania found that training, rather than experience handing or investigating human trafficking, was better for identifying victims.
•They suggest that standardized training is needed for officers to identify human trafficking victims

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