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. Arricle 11 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. 56 DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS e-mail: veritas@mango.zw website: www.veritaszim.net Veritas makes every effort to ensure the provision of reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied.