Public Service Announcement
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Human trafficking is the most common form of modern-day slavery. Estimates place
the number of its domestic and international victims in the millions, mostly females
and children enslaved in the commercial sex industry for little or no money. The
term human trafficking usually conjures up images of young girls beaten
and abused in faraway places, like Eastern Europe, Asia, or Africa. Actually, human
trafficking happens locally in cities and towns, both large and small, throughout
the United States, right in citizens' backyards.
Below are definitions that explain the difference between human trafficking and
human smuggling.
- Human Trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force,
fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage,
debt bondage or slavery. It includes any act in which a commercial sex act is induced
by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act
has not attained 18 years of age.
- Human Smuggling is defined as the importation of people into the United States involving
deliberate evasion of immigration laws. This offense includes bringing illegal aliens
into the United States as well as the unlawful transportation and harboring of aliens
already in the United States.
- Human Trafficking and Human Smuggling are not interchangeable terms. Smuggling is
transportation-based. Trafficking is exploitation-based.
HOW TO REPORT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
If you suspect that you or someone else is a victim of human trafficking, please
contact Sex Crimes by email:
PDSexCrimes.Unit@sanantonio.gov or call the Sex Crimes Unit at
210.207.2313, Monday – Friday, between 7:45 am and 5:45 pm.
The after-hours contact number for the Night Detectives is 210.207.7389.
If a criminal offense is in progress, please call 911 for a life threatening emergency,
or the non-emergency line for a non-life threatening event at 210.207.SAPD or 210.207.7273.
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