No.4/2014
TRAfFICKING IN PERSONS
Cap.9:25
Article 10
biformation exchange and rraining
I. Law enforcement, immigration or other relevant authorities of States Parties
shall, as appropriate, cooperate with one another by exchanging information, in
accordance with their domestic law, to enable them to determine:
(a) whether individuals crossing or attempting to cross an international
border with travel documents belonging to other persons or without travel
documents are perpetrators or victims of trafficking in persons; and
(b) the types oftraveldocumentthat individuals have used or attempted to use
to cross an intemational border for the purpose of trafficking in persons;
and
(c) the means and methods used by organized cdminal groups for the purpose
of trafficking in persons, including the recmitment and transportation
of victims, routes and links between and among individuals and groups
engaged in such trafficking, and possible measures for detecting them.
2. States Parties shall provide or strengthen training for law enforcement,
immigration and other relevant officials in the prevention of trafficking in persons. The
training should focus on methods used in preventing such trafficking, prosecuting the
traffickers and protecting the lights ofthe victims, including protecting the victims from
the traffickers. The training should also take into account the need to consider human
rights and child~ and gender··sensitive issues and it should encourage cooperation with
non~govemmental organizations. other relevant organi~ations and other elements of
civi I society.
3. A State Party that receives infmmatiou shall comply with any request by the
State Party that transmitted the infmmatiou that places restrictions on its use.
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Border measures
l. Without prejudice to international commitments in relation to the free movement
of people, States Parties shall strengthen, to the extent possible, such border controls
as may be necessary to prevent and detect trafficking in persons.
2. Each Stale Pa1ty shall adopt legislative or other approptiate measures to prevent,
to the extent possible, means of transpmt operated by commercial can·iers from being
used in tbe commission of offences established in accordance with article 5 of this
Protocol.
3. Where appropriate, and without prejudice to applicable international
eonventions, such measures shall include establishing the obligation of commercial
caniers, including any transpmtation company or the owner or operator of any means
of transpmt, to ascertain that all passengers are in possession of the travel documents
required for entry into the receiving State.
4. Each State Party shall take the necessary measures, in accordance wi!l1 its
domestic law, to provide for sanctions in cases of violation of the obligation set forth
in paragraph 3 of this article.
5. Each Stale Party shall consider taking measures that perrnit, in accordance
with its domestic law, the denial of entry or revocation of visas of persons implicated
in the commission of offences established in accordance with this Protocol.
6. Without prejudice to article 27 of the Convention, States Pmties shall consider
strengthening cooperation among border control agencies by, inter alia, establishing
and maintaining direct channels of conununication.
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