A Transnational Policing Response to Human Trafficking the United States

Student ID: 637559

Course Name: International Criminal Justice

Unit title: Issues in Transnational Policing – U21931-125EP

Unit coordinator: Dr. Paul Norman

Artefact number: 2

Assessment title: A Transnational Policing Response to Human Trafficking for the United States

Submission date: January 11, 2013

Word count: 3,265

Executive Summary

This report examines the issues that need to be considered when formulating a transnational policing response to the transnational trade in human beings to the United States.

The report identifies that Mexico and Canada are designated key transit countries for trafficking humans into the U.S. and as such, the majority of bilateral international cooperation from Canada and Mexico hails predominantly from these two countries.

The report will identify a number of other multilateral channels the U.S. can use to fight human trafficking. This report will discuss the benefits and limitations of these channels including those of Interpol and creating a North American model of Europol. Such a regional agreement could align the legal systems to create a united front against human trafficking. After discussing various multilateral cooperation mechanisms, this report will discuss the bilateral cooperations that the U.S. can use to fight human trafficking and the bilateral cooperations’ limitations. With all of these cooperations, law enforcement need to be cautious of human rights abuses.

I will conclude by arguing that the best way to fight human trafficking is by being a member of all levels of cooperation and utilizing the benefits of each level.

1.0 Introduction

This report examines the strategy, policy, and practical transnational policing issues that need to be considered to effectively police the transnational trafficking in human beings into the United States in response to the impact assessment produced in October 2012.

2.0 Overview of the Current Threat

Since the signing of the North American Free...