South Africa
SAPS, Interpol, SADC working together to fight human trafficking─── 11:02 Wed, 23 Sep 2020
National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole says the rise in child kidnappings in South Africa has prompted police management to engage several parties to highlight the seriousness of human trafficking.
Police management is engaging all Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries and the International Police Organisation (Interpol) on this matter.
Briefing the media in Pretoria on alert Level 1 lockdown regulations, Sithole said they were working with an integrated trans-national crime prevention network.
“At transnational level, we have got transnational organised crime operations that we share with the neighbouring countries – the SADC countries. But it is also a crime that we are looking at Interpol level. These are integrated and multi-disciplinary investigations. We are also working on transnational crime prevention framework,” explains Sitole.
Recently, Free State police received reports of a human trafficking syndicate operating in Bloemfontein.
In Limpopo, a series of viral social media messages circulating in Polokwane, allege that there have been reports of kidnapping and human trafficking of women.
