TWENTY members, each from South African Police Service and the Open Door Crisis Care Centre, will be undertaking a Human Trafficking Awareness campaign next month.
The members will walk their way from Durban City Hall, through the Free State Province and finish at the Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg, from 2 May until 8 May.
The Open Door Crisis Care Centre is an organisation which offers care and support to victims of contact crimes such as rape, family violence, and human trafficking. They work closely with the SAPS and the NPA through various programmes including a one-stop crisis and trauma centre offering counselling, social services and support groups to victims of all forms of crisis and trauma.
This is a proactive social crime prevention and the plan is to offer a presentation aimed at educating the community on human trafficking at a central point such as a community hall, school hall or clinic.
The community will be encouraged to ask questions and for those who need to log complaints or queries, there will be a pro-forma which they will fill in, and which will be given to the Provincial Task Team for Human Trafficking representative to follow up and provide further assistance to the complainants. There will also be information stands in set locations along the route where information and brochures will be given to supporters.
