Participants after the programme<\/strong><\/p>\nA five day cascading training workshop on combating
\nTrafficking in Persons for Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has
\nopened in Accra.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
A total of 40 Officers drawn from the National Headquarters
\nand 18 Regional Commands of the GIS are participating in the workshop to
\nenhance their skills and knowledge in the prevention of human trafficking in
\nGhana. <\/p>\n
The workshop forms part of the Migration EU Expertise
\n(MIEUX) project which started two years ago and is funded by the European
\nUnion, with International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and
\nthe GIS as the implementing agencies.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Explaining the rationale behind the project, a former Chief
\nImmigration Officer at the United Kingdom (UK) Border Agency, Mr. John Linehan,
\nwho is a Border Management consultant to the project said, the overall
\nobjective of the MIEUX project was to enhance the capacity of Officers to
\nidentify victims of human trafficking as well as perpetrators. <\/p>\n
According to Mr. Linehan, a training manual on combating
\nTrafficking in Persons has been developed which he said would be integrated
\ninto the training curriculum of the GIS. \u201cThe Technical Working Group of the
\nproject which includes Officers of GIS assisted in its development\u201d, he stated.
\nHe also added that trainers in Trafficking in Persons at the GIS have been
\nequipped to provide training and capacity-building to personnel in accordance
\nwith international best practices.<\/p>\n
IMMIGRATION
\nSERVICE STEP UP EFFORTS TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING \u2013 ADD 1<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Head of Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation
\nDepartment at the National Headquarters of GIS, Chief Superintendent of
\nImmigration (CSI) Thomas Ewuntomah, who spoke on behalf of the
\nComptroller-General of Immigration, indicated that human trafficking had
\nassumed critical dimension which required concerted effort to combat it. \u201cIt is
\nfor this reason that as a State Agency, we need to do everything possible to
\ncombat it\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
He made reference to the 2018 Trafficking in Persons report
\nby the United States Department of State that upgraded Ghana to the tier two in
\nthe fight against human trafficking and noted that the success story could not
\nbe trumpeted without the mention of GIS contribution in the fight against the
\nmenace. \u201cYou will agree with me that the success story could not have been
\nwithout the role played by the GIS\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
He expressed the Service\u2019s appreciation to the sponsor and
\nthe implementers of the project and said the Ghana Integrated Migration
\nManagement Approach (GIMMA) and the MIEUX projects had over the years supported
\nthe GIS in various capacities to fight cross border crime. \u201cWe should therefore
\nbe consolidating the gains in all these projects to find a common front to
\nfight this canker\u201d, he noted. <\/p>\n
The MIEUX project over the two year period covered
\nactivities such as assessment of training needs on Trafficking in Persons,
\ninformation exchange on detection, investigation and referral of victims of
\nTrafficking in Persons, development of training manual on combating Trafficking
\nin Persons and training of trainers on the training manual, among others.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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