Lai Chau police reach every village to instruct people to prevent human trafficking

Khun Ha is a highland area, where a number of local people are undereducated and face many difficulties in their daily lives.

During the law dissemination sessions, officers of the Khun Ha Communal Police Station updated residents on new methods and tricks used by criminals, such as tricking people into joining illegal labor export; luring people into going abroad to get “easy jobs with high pay” only to sell them to forced labor or sexual exploitation networks; and conducting online romance scams by establishing feigned relationships with promises of marriage and invitations to attractive places in order to traffic victims across the border.

The police also pointed out that criminals exploit the customs and practices of ethnic minority communities to abduct and traffic women and children.

During their explanations, the police used visual materials and cited real cases that had occurred to make the audience easily understand and remember the content. Officers also listened to residents’ concerns and aspirations, and answered their questions of how to register to work away from home and how to identify suspicious individuals among visitors to their places.

At the conclusion of the dissemination sessions, the Khun Ha Communal Police Station organized and event for representatives of households and local mass organizations to sign their commitments to preventing and combating human trafficking. The police also publicized the police hotline numbers so that residents can promptly report crimes in the locality.