SAPS Engages Evangelical Church Women on Awareness Campaign Against Human Trafficking

Pretoria Central Police Station Communications Officer Constable Thabang Nkhumise engaged women of the African Evangelical Church on an awareness campaign regarding human trafficking and kidnapping over the weekend photo supplied

Pretoria Central Police Station Communications Officer Constable Thabang Nkhumise engaged women of the African Evangelical Church on an awareness campaign regarding human trafficking and kidnapping over the weekend.

The engagement took place at the at the Manhattan Hotel in Tshwane, where the church’s women from all provinces were on a two-day seminar of the church.

Though the sole purpose of the seminar was to celebrate Women’s Day, Constable Nkhumise was accorded time to present insight into issues like human trafficking and kidnapping in South Africa as well as globally.

Women of the African Evangelical Church on an awareness campaign regarding human trafficking and kidnapping over the weekend photo supplied

Nkhumise explained that human trafficking is perpetuated for various reasons like forced labour, domestic servitude, forced marriage, organ removal and turning young victims into child soldiers.

The Constable also highlighted the fact that kidnap victims are often abducted and smuggled out of any given country and remain missing persons forever.

He pointed out that SAPS was currently working with various law-enforcement agencies world-wide to curb the surge of human trafficking and kidnapping.

Nkhumise urged ladies to be cautious about employing undocumented foreigners for cheap labour as that is considered to be human trafficking.

He encouraged women to report any criminal activities to the police and assured them that the can do so anonymously and help SAPS in its duties; thus protecting the most vulnerable groups in the society, who happen to be women and children.