The United States Department of Justice continued its efforts to combat human trafficking by convening and attending a roundtable[1] with representatives from Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers to discuss strategies and implement training programs to reduce and eradicate human trafficking. The Department of Justice provided grants totaling more than USD 100 million toward this end, and promised to release more funding during the 2020 fiscal year.
“Human trafficking is a sophisticated and obscenely profitable global enterprise, and combating it demands the full coordination of law enforcement agencies at all levels,” said Bill Woolf, Senior Advisor for Human Trafficking in the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs. “The Department of Justice is very pleased and proud to lend its support to the brave men and women here in southeastern Georgia—and throughout the country—who pursue trafficking perpetrators and bring aid to trafficking victims.”