Venezuelan Criminal Justice System Evaluates Actions Against Human Trafficking

At the conference, led by the Deputy Minister of the Integrated Criminal Investigation System, C/G Humberto Ramírez and the Deputy Minister of Internal Policy and Legal Security, Dr. Alana Zuloaga, they discussed the importance of coordinating the work carried out by the bodies of the different Public Powers, to counteract the recruitment methods used by structured organized crime groups dedicated to trafficking in persons.

During the meeting, the Commissioner General emphasized the role played by each organ of the Justice System in carrying out criminal investigations against this criminal activity; as well as on the preventive strategies to be carried out to prevent Venezuelans from becoming victims of this crime through digital platforms.

For her part, the Deputy Minister stressed that the Venezuelan State has invested all its efforts in ensuring comprehensive care for victims of this crime, who know no differences in race, gender, sex, nationality or age.

Also, at the meeting, the president of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas, Dr. Katherine Haringhton, highlighted the importance of coordination between the different organs of the State to deal with this crime, at the same time she ordered the members of the capital's criminal justice system to contribute to prevention days.

It is worth mentioning that trafficking in persons is an anti-legal act defined in the Organic Law against Organized Crime and the Financing of Terrorism, which in its article 41 establishes that anyone who, as part of an organized criminal group, executes, promotes or facilitates the recruitment or transportation of persons through various means of coercion for the exercise of begging, forced labor or services, servitude, sexual slavery, organ extraction, pornography, and others; shall be punished or punished by imprisonment for 20 to 30 years, as the case may be.

The activity was attended by members of the Public Ministry (MP), the Public Defense (DP), the Office of the Ombudsman (DdP), the Criminal and Criminal Scientific Investigations Corps (CICPC) and the Bolivarian National Police Corps (CPNB).