Target Audience: Law Enforcement-Based Victim Services Personnel, Victim Services Supervisors, and Sworn Leadership

Overall Objective: This project seeks to establish or enhance victim services programs in criminal justice agencies in order to couple law enforcement-based services with community-based program partnerships to serve the broader needs and rights of all crime victims.

Project Funding Provided by: The Office for Victims of Crime

Includes: A series of webinars discussing foundational elements of law enforcement-based victim services program development. Sample topics include but are not limited to: victims’ rights, program development, documentation standards, developing partnerships, and program sustainability.

Please direct any specific questions or comments to LEVproject@theiacp.org

For more information on Law Enforcement-Based Victim Services click here.

The topic for this session is creating infrastructure and departmental policies that include and support family wellness. This session will be a panel discussion where the speakers will share strategies and approaches, they have taken within their agencies. The panelists are Kimberly Jackson-Luzader, Trauma Counselor, Raleigh (NC) Police Department; Sgt. James Brack, Bellevue (WA) Police Department; and Sgt. Thomas Brengel, Illinois State Police.

The Family Wellness Speaker series offers virtual presentations by experts on the topic of family support for police officers. If you have any questions, please reach out to OSW@theiacp.org.

Matt Langer, IACP Global Policing Director, provides thought provoking comments and inspiration for enforcement officers and agents tasked with road policing and traffic safety. He highlights personal experience from his policing career with emphasis on the vital role of roadside enforcement in a safe systems approach to reducing traffic fatalities. Lastly, he underscores the need for professionalism, accountability, and a focus on the mission of making roads safer, encouraging the traffic agents to use resources from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

The topic for this session is leveraging external partnerships to enhance family wellness programs.  

The IACP hosted this webinar with Framework, an OVC-funded, labor trafficking training and technical assistance project. This webinar also included Theresa Nietzel, a retired Detective from Erie County, New York, Sheriff’s Office, who has provided expertise on hundreds of human trafficking investigations leading to successful prosecutions. Together they shared foundational insights about labor trafficking, including the individuals and industries affected, as well as strategies for identifying labor trafficking cases. Recorded testimonials from labor trafficking survivors were also featured. Additionally, the speakers discussed promising practices for investigating labor trafficking with a victim-centered and trauma-informed approach, aimed at achieving successful prosecutions.

After this webinar, participants will be better able to:

• Understand the intricacies of labor trafficking in the U.S. and recognize labor trafficking identifiers
• Use effective approaches surrounding labor trafficking investigations
• Understand Framework and the services and resources this training and technical assistance provider has available to support police agencies in the U.S.

Presenters:

• Charlee Borg, Deputy Director, Framework
• Theresa Nietzel, Detective (Retired), Erie County, New York, Sheriff’s Office
• Hilary Burgess, Senior Project Manager, International Association of Chiefs of Police (Moderator)

For more information, contact IACP’s Anti-Human Trafficking Team at humantrafficking@theiacp.org.

This webinar was produced by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Framework under Cooperative Agreements #15POVC-21-GK-03262-HT and #15POVC-23-GK-00930-HT, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this webinar are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The speaker for this session is Alicia Romero, the founder of Beyond the Badge. Alicia will discuss the reasoning behind creating a family wellness non-profit, as well as the benefits and challenges, and how other agencies can replicate her efforts.

Human trafficking often intersects with many other types of crime. Financial crime investigations can be used to help build trafficking cases and support criminal prosecutions that are not as dependent on victims. Financial crimes investigations can be conducted in parallel to sex trafficking or labor trafficking investigations to help identify victims, traffickers, and assets to seize, forfeit, and use toward restitution for victims. This course, developed by the IACP, in partnership with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), highlights how financial investigations can result in additional charges beyond human trafficking and assist the prosecution of offenders at the local, state, and federal levels. Financial investigations can broaden human trafficking cases to identify additional victims and co-conspirators, corroborate victim statements, uncover additional evidence, and identify and seize funds and real properties that were derived from, facilitated, or involved in the trafficking enterprise, with the goal of holding perpetrators accountable. The evidence and corroboration can help to minimize over-reliance on victim testimony and lead to additional charges to hold offenders accountable. This course includes human trafficking case examples and statutes, including financial crimes such as money laundering. During this course, attendees can review various resources for investigations, such as collecting open-source intelligence, collaborating with intelligence centers, and using databases like FinCEN.

This online training is part of the OVC funded IACP’s Enhanced Collaborative Model Human Trafficking Task Force Training Catalog.

By the end of this course, participants will be better able to:

• Understand intersections between human trafficking and financial crime;
• Integrate financial investigations into human trafficking investigations;
• Explain how the FinCEN and the Bank Secrecy Act can be useful investigatory tools;
• Identify financial crimes that can be used to prosecute criminal networks;
• Name various methods used to launder money;
• Gather evidence that can be used to prosecute financial crimes;
• Frame investigations to prove illicit intent in business practices;
• Describe various financial indicators of human trafficking; and
• Comprehend how asset forfeiture and restitution are important for recovery.

For more information, contact IACP’s Anti-Human Trafficking Team at humantrafficking@theiacp.org.

This online training is produced by the International Association of Chiefs of Police under Cooperative Agreement #2020-VT-BX-K002, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this online training are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The topic for this session is suicide prevention. The session will include a discussion on how agencies can integrate officer families into prevention, intervention, and postvention efforts. The speaker for this session is Dr. Edward Keane, a police psychologist with the Danbury (CT) Police Department) and the co-chair of the Suicide Prevention working group for the IACP Officer Safety and Organization Wellness Section.

Are you interested in leveraging data to develop or enhance your agency’s anti-human trafficking response? Do you know what data is important for your efforts? Do you want to know more about how to routinely identify, monitor, and demonstrate the impact of your responses?

The IACP and IDEA Analytics provide this online workshop to assist police agencies in starting or refining efforts to leverage data to inform human trafficking response strategies. This workshop highlights common data sources that are useful in identifying human trafficking risk factors; ways to use administrative data to inform victim-centered responses; innovative data collection practices; and tips to use past data to understand what is and is not working.

During this interactive workshop, presenters guide participants through questions and examples of critical data sources that are often underutilized when examining human trafficking trends.

After this workshop, participants will be better able to:

•  Define five domains to build analytical capacity and how they apply to police agencies;
• Identify available data sources to further develop person- or place-based strategies for prevention and intervention strategies; and
•  Examine analytical expectations to redefine police agency data needs.

Presenters:

• Dr. Jessica Herbert, CEO, IDEA Analytics
• Hilary Burgess, Senior Project Manager, IACP (Moderator)

For more information about IACP’s anti-human trafficking resources, visit the website or contact IACP’s Anti-Human Trafficking Team at humantrafficking@theiacp.org. 

This workshop is produced by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and IDEA Analytics under Cooperative Agreements #15POVC-21-GK-03262-HT and 15POVC-21-GK-03264-HT, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this workshop are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.