 In December 2009, Bureau of IOM in Moscow published two scientific-practical Manuals for law-enforcement specialists.
The Manual "Human Trafficking and Legalization of Criminal Profits. Issues of Prevention" tackles issues of investigation of trafficking crimes on the basis of innovative approaches including investigations with the use of financial tools. The manual was developed by a group of national and international experts with participation of IOM counter-trafficking specialists.
On the basis of the manual, an educational program was elaborated by the experts and professors of the Economic Security Academy of the Ministry of Interior of Russia (MoI). The educational program is a working tool on human trafficking issues targeted to the students attending the Ministry of Interior of the RF educational establishments for training, re-training, upgrading of qualifications as well as operative officers and investigators.
The program is already in place at the MoI Russia Economic Security Academy and MoI Russia Moscow University.
Three counter-trafficking projects contributed to the development of the manual, namely: “Prevention of Human Trafficking in the Russian Federation” financed by the European Union; co-funded by the US Department of State (INL) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); “Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in the Russian Federation” financed by Sida - Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency; “A Multiagency Model of Cooperation for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in the Russian Far East” (financed by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the US Department of State-INL).
The other Manual on THB crimes typologies illustrates mechanisms of human trafficking crimes, on the basis of a typological classification while providing methodological recommendations on effective investigative approaches. The manual focuses on judicial practice, criminal characteristics of human trafficking and typology of victims of trafficking. The manual has been published in 1000 copies.
The manual was developed in close cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), global leader in the fight against illicit drugs and international crime. The authors are specialists of the Moscow University of MoI Russia, Prosecutor’s General Academy and the Russian Academy of Advocacy and Notariate.
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