KAZAKHSTAN: INL CONDUCTS ANTI-TIP TRAINING COURSE FOR LAW

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STATE FOR INL ALTON, AND CARROLL; EUR/ACE; SCA/CEN FOR OMARA;
JUSTICE FOR GREG DUCOT

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TAGS: SNAR PINS PGOV PHUM KCRM KZ
SUBJECT: KAZAKHSTAN: INL CONDUCTS ANTI-TIP TRAINING COURSE FOR LAW
ENFORCEMENT, PROCURACY, AND JUDICIARY


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1. Summary. The International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL)
office, in cooperation with International Organization for Migration
(IOM),conducted a four day training course for law enforcement,
Border Guards, the Procuracy, and the Judiciary on prevention of
trafficking in human beings and protection of victims' rights. The
participants discussed best practices of detection, investigation,
prosecution, and the conduction of hearings in human trafficking
cases; exchanged real-world experiences; and advocated strengthening
the dialogue between agencies to effectively combat trafficking.
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2. INL representatives, IOM trafficking in persons experts, NGO
representatives, lawyers, and a psychologist from the "Rodnik" TIP
victim rehabilitation center, trained police officers, border
guards, procurators, and judges from South and West Kazakhstan met
in Almaty January 23-26 to combat trafficking in persons. A trainer
arranged through the International Criminal Investigative Assistance
Training Program (ICITAP) division of the Department of Justice
taught the best U.S. practices in combating this crime and shared
her wealth of international experience in the field.


3. During the course the participants reviewed national
legislation, recent anti-trafficking in persons amendments to the
national legislation, and international protocols and conventions to
define TIP, slavery and slavery-like conditions and practices;
discussed difficulties of detection, investigation and prosecution
of trafficking cases; discussed the links between trafficking in
persons and other criminal activities as well as legal businesses;
defined human smuggling cases versus trafficking cases; and studied
phases of victimization, the behavior of TIP victims, the issues of
re-victimization and stigmatization, and assistance to and
protection of victims of trafficking during and after investigation
and court hearing.


4. The sessions included lecturing, brainstorming, videos, and
psychological games. Role plays such as mock investigation or mock
court hearings helped the trainees to understand what victims feel
during the investigation and court hearings. The participating
judges made short presentations of TIP cases that they had tried. A
case about labor trafficking in Aktobe presented by a representative
of the Department of Internal Affairs of Western Kazakhstan oblast
attracted the most participant interest. Many questions, active
discussion, and citation of case examples from participants'
experience followed this case study.


5. The participants recognized the importance of strengthening
anti-TIP cooperation between law enforcement, NGOs, and other
institutions providing assistance to victims, as well as between law
enforcement agencies of countries of origin, transit, and
destination.


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6. In the short term, INL will continue to provide refresher TIP
training to in-service law enforcement officers from all regions of
Kazakhstan. These sessions will be conducted in the newly
rehabilitated Anti-TIP Study Center in the Karaganda Legal
Institute.


7. INL will work with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the
Committee of National Security to provide special Anti-TIP courses
in their Legal Institute in Karaganda and in the Military Institute
in Almaty, as supplemental courses for their cadets.


8. As a long-term goal INL will work with the Ministry of Education
to introduce TIP into official training curricula to ensure TIP
awareness and competence of future generation of law enforcement
officers, procurators, and judges.


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COMMENT
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9. Observation, evaluations, and anecdotal comments show that
participants receive anti-TIP training most enthusiastically when
the training material is based on Kazakstani law and reviews cases
adjudicated in Kazakhstan. For this reason, INL anti-TIP training

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is provided both by local trainers and knowledgeable law enforcement
officers, as well as by expatriate trainers who can provide a wider
range of international experience.

ORDWAY